Parvum theatrum urbium, sive, Urbium praecipuarum totius orbis brevis et methodica descriptio / authore Adriano Romano E.A.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Romain, Adrien, 1561-1615.

Contributor:

Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1541-1622.

Bassée, Nicolas, -1601, printer.

Dutch Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Early works to 1800.

Cities and towns.

Geography--Early works to 1800.

Geography.

Penn Provenance:

Chasles, M. (Michel), 1793-1880 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Oeselin, I. C. (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Oeselinus, Johannes Christophorus (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Sultzbach, Marie-Auguste de (armorial binding) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Vaillant(?), V. J. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 365, that is, 371 pages, 25 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Parvvm theatrvm vrbivm, sive, Vrbivm praecipvarvm totivs orbis brevis et methodica descriptio

Parvum theatrum urbium

Parvvm theatrvm vrbivm

Urbium praecipuarum totius orbis brevis et methodica descriptio

Vrbivm praecipvarvm totivs orbis brevis et methodica descriptio

Fingerprint:

s,n- m.u- m.i- tave (3) 1595 (R)

Place of Publication:

Francoforti : Ex officina typographica Nicolai Bassaei, Anno MDXCV [1595]

Notes:

Signatures: ):(⁴ A-3C⁴ 3D².

Numerous errors in pagination.

Woodcut title vignette, illustrations, initials and tail-pieces.

Typographical ornaments.

Text and printed marginalia within ruled border.

A translation of the indices of G. Braun and F. Hogenberg's Civitates orbis terrarum. Cf. Sabin, 73000.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1962

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy bound in full calf; boards each double-ruled in gold with arms of Marie-Auguste de Sultzbach (1724-1765), wife of Charles Philippe Theodore de Sultzbach, Duke of Bavaria, stamped in gold in center; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; red leather spine label with "Romani Theatrum" stamped in gold; letters "B P" (i.e. Bibliotheca Palatina) stamped in gold at head of spine; blind-ruled cover edges; marbled endpapers; all edges red; green silk marker.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Michel Chasles on front pastedown; armorial bookplate of an unidentified former owner (a count?) on front free endpaper; autograph ("M. Johannes Christops. Oeselinus") and stamp ("I.C. Oeselin.") on title leaf; autograph ("V. J. Vaillant[?]") at foot of title leaf; modern ms. notes in pencil on verso of front free endpaper and back pastedown.

Cited in:

VD 16 R 3024

Related Work:

Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1541-1622. Civitates orbis terrarum.

OCLC:

15019878