4to (207 x 142mm). Title withing 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 Tübingen, and his students included Philipp Melanchthon and Sebastian Munster.  Adams S1885; USTC 625632; VD16 S9190.