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COMPLETE COPY OF QUADT'S RARE 1608 ATLAST WITH 87 DOUBLE-PAGE ENGRAVED MAPS
QUADT, Matthias (1557-1613). Fasciculus geographicus complectens praecipuarum totius orbis regionum tabulas circiter centum, una cum earundem enarrationibus. Cologne: Johann Bussemecher, 1608. Folio, 27 cm x 19 cm. Contemporary vellum. Third and final edition of Matthias Quadt's printed atlas.
Title within engraved architectural border, engraved arms of Herman Kran above printed dedication, 87 double-page engraved maps (including an anemographic diagram) engraved by Johann Bussemecher, Heinrich Nagel or Matthias Quadt, many incorporating portrait vignettes, mounted on guards; Latin text on verso.
This rare edition is the augmented version of Quadt's earlier atlas, the Geographisch Handbuch (1600), which contained 82 maps, as well as his Europae totius terrarum orbis partis praestantissimae (1596) which contained 67 maps. Six of the maps in this atlas relate to the Americas and Australia/Antarctic.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH'S TUTOR with the Preface by Margaret AschamTHE SCHOLEMASTER Or plain and perfite way of teaching children, to understand, write, & speak, the Latin tong,. . . London, John Daye, 1579. 4to., title within typographical border, [6], 67, (lacking final leaf with the large woodcut printer's device) . Signatures: [pointing hand]2 B-T(3 of 4) . The editor's dedicatory epistle signed: Margaret Ascham. 19th century calf and marbled boards, front board detached, some loss to spine; internally, t.p, with old barely noticeable re-backing but slightly shorter on right margin, some toning, bii-biv closely cropped just intruding on upper title Roger Ascham has been styled the "Father of English Prose"; he was tutor to Queen Elizabeth. Dibdin lavished praise "His School Master is a work which can only perish with our language" and hints of more modern progressive education can be seen in his text. He was not one for the rod and descried "beating in common scholes of England" Instead,… Read More