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Brunswick (now Braunschweig), 1641 Introductionis in universam geographiam, tam veterem quam novam. Braunschweig, B. Gruber für G. Müller, 1641. Original Book : 19 x 15 cm, with 1 foldout copperplate printed world map and 32 foldout copperplate printed maps of the continents (Europe, Asia, and Africa) and regions; 214 pages of text with illustrated title page with portrait, letters to reader, table of contents, oration to Cluver, and index.
Book # AB-11.
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Philipp Cluver (1580-1623) was a noted geographer of the early seventeenth century. He is credited with authoring numerous works on geography, the most famous being his Introductionis in Universam Geographicam, which appeared over a considerable number of years into the eighteenth century. Cluver was born in Gdansk and eventually settled in Leiden. The first edition of Cluver's Introductio, published in Leiden in 1624, did not contain maps. This edition of 1641 is the first known to contain a map of the continent of Africa. The two men principally involved in the German editions were Conrad Buno (c.1613-1671), and his brother, Johann Buno (1617-1697). Johann was a theologian and pedagogue in Lüneburg. Conrad was an engraver and publisher at the court of Wolfenbüttel. The engraver for this map of Africa is Conrad Buno, whose imprint appears as 'C Buno fecit' at the base of the title cartouche. The folding, double-hemispheres world map shows a peninsula California, part of Australia (see Shirley, Map #356). Numerous maps were included for the first time in this German edition of Cluver's Introductio, published by Gottfried Müller with Balthasar Gruber, or later Andreas Duncker as the printer. This map of Africa also appeared in a 1652 Brunswick edition of Cluver's Introductio. It is possible that it may have been used for further editions of Cluver's Introductio, though these have not been located.
Betz, Map #71.
Not in Norwich.
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