= Beautiful copy with the maps and plates in dark impressions. This 1697 edition is the first in quarto format with much improved maps. Philips 4270; Sabin 13805; NDB III,295. With the worldmap (Shirley 586 w. ill.), the 4 continents (for America, see Burden 360), 29 maps of Europe, 7 of Asia and 2 of Africa.
Philipp Clüver (also Kluwer, Cluwer, or Cluvier, Latinized as Philippus Cluverius) (Danzig 1580 – Leyden 31 December 1622) was an Early Modern German geographer and historian. Clüver was an antiquary, who was given a special appointment at Leiden as geographer and put in charge of the university's library, but his life's project, it developed, was a general study of the geography of Antiquity, based not only on classical literary sources, but – and this was his contribution – supplemented by wide travels and local inspections. He became virtually the founder of historical geography. His Introductio in universam geographiam, totally 6 parts, (published posthumously from 1624) was the first comprehensive modern geography, and became a standard geographical textbook.

First two quires (incl. frontispiece and title) with wormtunnel.