ལ་ 31 52 APIANUS. COSMOGRAPHIA | Petri Apiani, per gemmam | Frisium .... ab o- mnibus vindicata mendis ac nonnul- lis quoque locis aucta. . At foot, under a woodcut globe: PARISIIS. | Væneunt apud Vinantium Gaultherot.... | 1551. Roy. 8vo. folding map of the world, besides all the diagrams of the 1534 edition; fine copy in bds. Paris, 1551 The woodcuts and diagrams are improved copies of those in the 1534 edition, and the large map is a faithful copy of the one which appeared at Antwerp in 1548. There are some slight modifications in the text, as for instance in substituting French illustrations for Flemish or German ones here and there. The Usus Annuli Astronomici is added at the end. Besides the map, there are 72 leaves in signatures of A-H, K—T, in fours. COSMOGRAPHIA | PETRI APIANI, PER GEMMAM FRISIVM apud Louanienses Medicum & Mathematicum insignem | iam demum | aucta . . | . . | Here a woodcut of a globe, and under it the date M.D.LIII. | Veneunt Antuerpiæ Gregorio Bontio... Small 4to. with all the woodcut diagrams of the preceding edition, and (in addition) a folding woodcut map of the world in heartshape Charta Cosmographica which gives the full delineation of the known world and bears the name AMERICA; hf. bd. 1553 The signatures are A-H in fours, I a single sheet of two leaves bearing the large map, K-R in fours, and S in three leaves. COSMOGRAPHIA . . Arnoldi Birckmanni. ་ COLONIE AGRIPPINE, Apud Hæredes 1574 1 16 0 With the same diagrams, map, and letterpress as the edition of 1553. LA COSMOGRAPHIA El Sitio y Descripcion de las Indias y Mudo Small 4to. with the same diagrams, woodcuts and map as in the 1574 1575 The last twelve leaves are occupied with extracts from Gomara and Girava, and an alphabetical table of American ports and towns. Cosmographia, sine Descriptio vniuersi Orbis, Petri Apiani & Gemma Frisi, Mathematicorum insignium . . . Anno 1584. Antuerpiæ, ex Officina Ioannis Withagij. 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BARRI-see BORRI 84 BARRINGTON (George) A Voyage to New South Wales, with a description of the country, the manners, customs, religion, etc. of the natives in the vicinity of Botany Bay, by George Barrington, now Superintendent of the convicts at Paramatta, 8vo. 140 pp.; hf. calf 85 86 86*. 87 87*. £ s. d. 076 07 6 1 5 0 1795 1 5 0 A Voyage to Botany Bay, with a description of the country, the two vols. 8vo. calf, uniform The History.. 27 preliminary leaves and 505 pp. 14 coloured plates; calf extra, gilt edges Of the two extra preliminary leaves (27 instead of 25) one is a list of the prints which ought to be in the book, and the second is Directions to the Binder which was intended to be cancelled. An Account of a Voyage [second edition] title, 472 pp. and 2 In this edition there was a redistribution between the books of the 24 plates The modern Australian bibliographers are inclined to think that the eminent pick- 88 BARROS and COUTO, HISTORY OF THE PORTUGUESE IN ASIA. 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