- Bib ID:
- 3059998
- Format:
- Map
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. Map
- Scale:
- Scale not given.
- Description:
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- Getruckt zů Franckforth am Meyn : bei Cyriaco Jacob zum Barth, 1545
- 1 atlas ([76] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 27.7 cm.
- Notes:
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- Colophon: Getruckt zů Franckforth am Meyn / bei Cyriaco Jacob zum Barth / am xxii tag Maif. Anno M.D. XLV.
- Contemporary ink ownership inscription on front endpaper and pencil annotations.
- German treatise on astronomy which includes a small windhead map showing the Southern Continent named Australia. The windhead map appears on the verso of page 28, opposite a half-page engraving of an armillary sphere.
- Includes small in-text woodcuts depicting signs of the zodiac, constellations, astrological tables, planetary diagrams etc.
- The book is bound in vellum with two columns of rubricated text to front and verso bindings. It is housed in a modern custom-made brown cassette-style box 29.6 x 21.0 x 3.0 cm. with gilt lettered leather title "Teutsch - Astronomie 1545" on box spine.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230899009
- In German (Gothic)
- Subject:
- Astronomy -- Early works to 1800
- Time Coverage:
- 1545
- Other authors/contributors:
- Jacob, Cyriacus, -1551
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Engraving
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1551
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1545
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