78/2528 Apianus, P. Cosmographie. Oft Beschrijvinghe der gheheelder Werelt (...) ghecorrigeert van Gemma Frisio (...). Metten Zeecompasse ende anderen boecxkens by den selve Gemma daer toegedaen. Antw., J. Verwithagen, 1573, 75,(1) lvs., woodcut globe on title-p., 1 (facsimile) fold. worldmap, 5 volvelle plates incl. one plate w. a plumb line (as almost always without the lead plumb and the movable disc) (on verso of f.XIII), num. ills., contemp. limp vellum w. (later?) ties, sm. 4to.

- The woodcut volvelle with the plumb line (verso f.XIII) lacks the lead weight (as practically always) and one movable disc; volvelle on verso f.XI lacks movable disc; worldmap apparently counterfeit (see note below); contemp. owner's entry on title-p. and first free endpaper. Spine-ends (sl.) dam.

= Pettegree/ Walsby 242; Van Ortroy, Bio-bibliographie (...) Gemma Frisius no.27; cf. Bibl. Belgica A 36 (this ed. not in Bibl. Belgica, but listed in note in Vol.1 on p.93); Shirley no.82 and no.96 refer to a deceptive counterfeit of the worldmap (the "Charta Cosmographia") made after the second woodblock of the Apian worldmap (which was used in the editions published in 1553). None of the Flemish editions listed in the Bibliotheca Belgica mention the plate with the plumb line on verso of f. XI (which is also a volvelle plate as is shown by the copy of the 1573 ed. held in University LIbrary in Ghent). One of the most important and popular 16th cent. works on cosmography, this treatise deals i.a. with triangulation, the climatic zones in which the earth may be divided, and with methods of determining latitude and longitude.