Christophori Cellarii Smalcaldensis Geographia Antiqua, Recogita denuo ... sextae Editione Tot Chartas ex majori auctoris Geographia antiqua quot ad minorem hanc illustradum requirebantur, ...

with 27 maps

Octavo (197 x 126 mm); additional engraved frontispiece, title-page printed red and black, viii, 180pp., twenty-seven maps on twenty-sixsheets. Contemporary speckled calf, panelled in blind, recently rebacked in antique style. The maps dark impressions. London : Samuel Ballard, JohnSenex, et al.,

Despite the inference in the title, this is the First Edition, edited by Samuel Patrick, with maps by John Senex. The frontispiece engraving of a sphere is an advertisement for Senex’s globe- and mapmaking business, which suggests he was the retailer of this copy.

Shirley refers to this edition of the Geographia Antiqua as the first to contain maps. The atlas was both popular and successful, and was much reprinted.

ESTC 145222; Shirley, T-Cell-3a.

Stock Code: 224673