Hand-boeck, Lot n° 1750

of Cort begrijv der Caerten Ende Beschryvinghen van alle Landen des Werelds. With texts by Jacobus Viverius probably after texts by the first author Barent Langenes. Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz, 1609. 11.8 x 19.2 cm. With engraved figural title vignette and 178 engraved full-page maps and illustrations. Maps and illustrations by Jodocus Hondius, Peter van den Kaerius, Benjamin Wright and Philippus Pigafetta, among others. 8 pp., 761 pp., 1 (instead of 2) pp. mod. Parchment binding with handwritten title on spine. (Rckn. with printer's mark, wear). The missing final leaf of the register handwritten on the back. Endpapers. Title page just trimmed, with some loss of text and edgeworn and with indentation in the bows. Some browning and waterstains. - Very rare. D