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Book - Reference Encyclopedic Compendium, Peter Heylyn, Cosmography in Four Books, 1674
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Cosmography in Four Books was originally published as Cosmographie and is one of the most famous and comprehensive English encyclopedic compendiums of global geography, history, and chorography, meaning regional topography, produced in the 17th century. The work was first published in 1652 and attempts to document every known region of the world at the time. The information is bound together as a single large folio volume and divided into four main sections or books:
Book I: Europe and its surrounding islands.
Book II: Asia and its kingdoms.
Book III: Africa, its provinces, and coastal regions.
Book IV: America, split into Northern and Southern America. Book IV features an Appendix speculating on Terra Australis Incognita (the unknown Southern Continent). Each section outlines geographical coordinates, local climates, political histories, royal lineages, cultures, and notable geographical features, accompanied by four large folding engraved maps, one for each continent.
Hard cover book,Cosmography in Four Books
Author: Peter Heylyn
Publisher: Philip Cherwind & Anne Seile, London.
Date: (MDCLXXIV) 1674
Further Information: Brown Leather bound volume, library label to spine, spine has raised ribbing front cover has border in gilt.non-fictionCosmography in Four Books was originally published as Cosmographie and is one of the most famous and comprehensive English encyclopedic compendiums of global geography, history, and chorography, meaning regional topography, produced in the 17th century. The work was first published in 1652 and attempts to document every known region of the world at the time. The information is bound together as a single large folio volume and divided into four main sections or books:
Book I: Europe and its surrounding islands.
Book II: Asia and its kingdoms.
Book III: Africa, its provinces, and coastal regions.
Book IV: America, split into Northern and Southern America. Book IV features an Appendix speculating on Terra Australis Incognita (the unknown Southern Continent). Each section outlines geographical coordinates, local climates, political histories, royal lineages, cultures, and notable geographical features, accompanied by four large folding engraved maps, one for each continent.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, cosmography in four books, philip chetwind, anne seile
