HENRION Denis, Cosmographie, ou traicte general des choses tant celestes qv' elementaires,

Cosmographie, ou traicte general des choses tant celestes qv' elementaires,

Auecles accidens & proprietez plus remarquables d'icelles. Par (...). Seconde edition, reueue, corrigee, & augmentee. Paris 1626. chez l'Autheur, demeurant en l'Isle du Palais, a l'Image S. Michel. Auec Priuilege du Roy. (17.7 x 11 cm), pp. [4], 113-934, [2], copperplate engravings in the text, vignette, decorative initial, period binding, gilt decoration and lettering on spine.
(Estr. does not note). Rubbing of binding, trace of flooding of initial pages, browning in places, front cover loose. Entire book in protective wrapper. Cosmography or general treatise on celestial and elemental bodies. Pages 685-696 contain a description of Poland. Denis (sometimes Didier) Henrion (16th-17th centuries) - French mathematician. He translated Euclid's "Elements" from Latin into French, wrote a treatise on logarithms, and published a book attacking Marin Ghetaldi, Viete and Regiomontanus. 9482/6