Trinum Marinum ... Arca Temporum Mundi reserata ...

Author: Philo Cosmographus

Publisher: Enderlin, Jackob

Published: Augsburg

Publishing year: 1693

Philo Cosmographus (pseud.). "Trinum Marinum: Oder: Die an einander hangende Drey Meer. Pontus Euxinus, Propntis, cum  Archipelago: Oder: Das Schwartze / Wisse / und Egeische Meer: Mit ihren innliegenden Insulen / ... angräntzenden Meeren und Landen / ... Städten / Vestungen / Gebürgen / Seen / Flüssen / Thieren / Vögeln / Fischen / Antiqitäten und Raritäten / etc. Dem curiosen Leser / zu Lust und Nutzen / ... in vilen Kupffern vorgestellt". Augsburg: Anton Nepperschmid for Jakob Enderlin, 1693. Fol. (30:20 cm). (2), 61, (1) pp.  Bound together with: Ditto. "Arca Temporum Mundi Reserata. Oder: Der Welt eröffnete Zeit- und Geschicht- Beschreibung / Begreiffend Perturbatum: Das ist: Die Tyrannisirungs- Zeit Der Ottomannischen Porten". Ditto. 64 pp. With 38 plates containing 39 copper-engravings (32 city-views, plans, maps and 6 depictions of animals). Orig. paper binding with marbled paper on the front and rear desk.

The book features an overview of the geography of the Ottoman Empire, including the Aegean, the Sea of Marmara, and the Black Sea region - the "three seas" to which the title refers. - Spine of the book expertly restored. Lower left part of the title-page of the first book ("Trinum Marinum") torn off (with some loss of text) and expertly filled in with old paper. Otherwise in very good condition. - The engravings show i.a. "Pontus Euxinus" (Black Sea), "Moscowitische Residenz Kremelin", "Gli Dardanelli", "Archipelagus" (Map of Greece, Crete and Aegean Sea), "Constantinopel", "Candia", "Rhodus", "Famagusta", "Griechisch Weissenburg" (Belgrade),  "Bursa" (a city in Turkey), "Constantinopoli".

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