A rarer book. 2 tomes, 1 volume.

Joannes Antonius Maginus, of Padua,
Matheseos Mathematics Professor in the Gymnasium of Bologna, died
February 11, 1617 / at the age of 61.

BOOT 1002 OG 63 - 6175
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An elaborate engraved title page. In the center is a large oval frame for text, encircled by a winding banner. The border features architectural elements and allegorical figures.

At the top center: Two putti flank a small terrestrial globe beneath a crown.
Top left: A female figure representing Europe (EVROPA) with a scepter and a lion.
Top right: A figure representing Asia (ASIA) seated on a camel.
Middle tier: Two standing scholars or geographers; the one on the left (likely Ptolemy) holds a cross and a globe, while the one on the right holds a globe and a compass.
Bottom left: A figure representing Africa (AFRICA) seated on a crocodile.
Bottom right: A figure representing America (AMERICA) in a feathered headdress seated on an armadillo-like creature.
A banner encircling the central oval carries the Latin inscription: "In His hand are all the ends of the earth" original: "IN MANV EIVS SVNT OMNES FINES TERRAE".

EUROPE

ASIA

AFRICA

AMERICA

IN HIS HAND ARE ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

THE UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY

BOTH ANCIENT AND NEW, MOST ABSOLUTE

work, divided into two volumes,

IN THE FORMER OF WHICH ARE CONTAINED

CL. PTOLEMAEUS OF PELUSIUM'S

Eight books of Geographical Enarrations:

The first of which, which encompasses all the precepts of this discipline, has been illustrated with most abundant commentaries by

IO. ANTONIO MAGINO OF PADUA.

In the second volume are contained

CL. PTOLEMAEUS'S twenty-seven ancient maps of the world, extremely necessary for understanding ancient history. And thirty-seven more recent maps, by which the picture and face of the whole world, and of its individual parts, regions, and provinces, lie open before the eyes, corresponding to our own century.

Together with most copious expositions of the maps themselves, in which individual parts of the world, provinces, regions, empires, kingdoms, duchies, and other domains, as they exist in our time, are exactly described.

By the same author IO. ANT. MAGINO OF PADUA, Professor of Mathematical Sciences in the sacred Gymnasium of Bologna.

Year 1597.

PRINTED IN THE MOST CELEBRATED COLOGNE OF THE AGRIPPINIANS BY

PETRUS KESCHEDT.