Cosmographia Petri Apiani, per Gemmam Frisium ... iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta ...

A Cosmographical book concerning the principles of Astrology and
Cosmography.
A partial description of the same of the four parts of the earth,
namely Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.
To which is added a description of the region of P E R U, recently
discovered.
On the observation of the hours of the night, by the same.

BY GEMMA FRISIUS.
On the method of describing places,
And on finding their distances.
On the use of the Astronomical Ring, by the same Gemma Frisius,
recently augmented in many places.

A POEM BY DIDACUS PYRRHUS LUSITANUS.
Original: "Didaci Pyrrhus Lusitani Carmen"
Do you wish to see cities, do you wish to see a thousand places, do you wish to see a thousand towns,
All enclosed within a single small book?
Do you wish to know in what place, or in what region the Persian dwells,
While you yourself inhabit the Brabantian soil,
The Persian, or the Hyrcanian, or the Parthian noble with the painted bow,
And the proud Turk on his fleeing horse?
Do you also wish to note the tracts of the earth, and the paths of the sky,
And the clear signs on the star-bearing pole?
Do you wish for a great treasure purchased for a small price?
Buy this work, Reader, and read it through diligently.

DISTICH.
It will be possible here for the vast World to be traversed in a small space,
A bright thing for a small price.