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STRAET, Jan van der (1536-1605). Nova reperta. [Antwerp]: Phillipe Galle, [1600?].
STRAET, Jan van der (1536-1605). Nova reperta. [Antwerp]: Phillipe Galle, [1600?]. Oblong 4° (260 x 338mm). Engraved title and 19 numbered plates by Theodore Galle and Hans Collaert after Jan van der Straet (Light marginal spotting and minor soiling.) Modern binding reusing old limp vellum, title on spine, new endpapers (lacking ties, lightly soiled). FIRST EDITION . The title is illustrated with small pictures of the inventions and discoveries which are depicted in more detail in the first ten plates. The last nine plates may have been an afterthought, as they are not included on the title-page and no separate title-page for these nine is recorded. The plates depict Columbus discovering America and Amerigo Vespucci discovering the southern cross with an astrolabium; various other inventions are illustrated including the compass, gunpowder, book printing, copper engraving, oil painting, clockwork, eyeglasses and distillation; among these are also the creation of the watermill and windmill, the invention of the olive press and the discovery of the longitudes. Hollstein 322-341; Sabin 92666 and 92667.