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STOEFFLER, Johann (1452–1531). Cosmographicae aliquot descriptiones... De Sphaera Cosmographica, hoc est de Globi terrestris, artificiosa structura. De Duplici Terrae proiectione in planum... Edited by Johann Dryander (1500–1560). Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1537. 4to (207 x 142mm). Title within woodcut border, 5 folding diagrams (plates laid down on heavy paper, first 2 plates with some tears and small losses at center folds, some marginal tears). (Some dampstaining; final leaf E4 [corrigenda] defective with tear at center repaired with some slight loss of text, small internal tear on E3 just touching one letter.) Old pasteboards with vellum spine strips; morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION of this posthumous treatise on geography and astronomy by the influential astronomer, mathematician, mapmaker and maker of astronomical instruments. Stoeffler was a professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Tubingen, and his students included Philipp Melanchthon and Sebastian Munster. Adams S1885; USTC 625632; VD16 S9190.