The Treatise of Gerard Mercator. . .(Antwerp 1540)

Book Description

Antwerp & Paris: Officina Bodoni. 1930. 8vo. H Cloth... Fine.. Press Books and Fine Printing Antwerp: De Sikkel and Paris: The Pegasus Press, 1930. 8vo, green moiré cloth with calligraphic title in gilt. Slight tanning to silver of cloth at extremities of spine; end-papers and fore-edge light ly foxed; else fine in dust jacket with a little chipping at top edge. One of 200 copies on Fabriano handmade paper, handset in Janson type. Facsimile of a writing book by the great publisher of maps, prepared as a model for his workshop staff. Biographical introduction by Jan Denucé and a note on Mercators work as a calligrapher by Stanley Morison. John Barr, Britis h Library Exhibit, 27. Schmolle r 36.

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