Cosmographia
Title | Cosmographia |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 1490 |
Authors | Ptolemy, |
City | Rome |
Library | Pierpont Morgan Library |
Binding | Bound in brown goatskin, tooled in gold to a fanfare design, with the stamp inserted in gold |
Notes | The book was illuminated for the Frescobaldi family of Florence. Described and illustrated by George F. Barwick. A book bound for Mary Queen of Scots. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1901, and discussed by G.D. Hobson in Les reliures à la fanfare. London, 1935, pages 73-75. The illustration in the latter work is from a photograph, that in the earlier work, though handsome, is inaccurate in detail |
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