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edition contains some of the first and finest copper engravings in print.
Engraving for this edition began under Conrad Sweynheym in Rome. Sweynheym
studied in Mainz, Germany in the early 1460s and with his partner, Arnold
Pannartz, founded the first Italian press at Subiaco outside of Rome in
1465. Sweynheym died in 1477, leaving Arnold Buckinck to complete and publish
the engravings in Cosmographia one year later.
he book contains twenty-seven
maps, each map being printed on two separate leaves facing each other,
and printed only on one side. The text appearing in this edition was independently
set and was not engraved along with the images as would have been expected.
his copy is one of
only two known copies printed on vellum. The other copy resides at the
French National Library in Paris.
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