Phillip Clüver

PHILIPP CLÜVER (1580- 1622).
"Philippi Cluverii Introductionis in Universam Geographiam tam veterem quam novam".
Printer: Pedro de Coup. Amsterdam, 1729.
With engravings and maps.
In good condition with slight faults and parchment covers.
Measurements: 26 x 21 x 8 cm.
Philipp Clüver was a German geographer and historian of the Modern Age. Clüver was born in Danzig (Gda?sk), in Royal Prussia, a province of the Kingdom of Poland. After spending some time at the Polish court of Sigismund III Vasa, he began law studies at the University of Leiden (Dutch Republic), but soon turned to history and geography, then taught there by Joseph Scaliger. Clüver was an antiquarian, who was given a special appointment at Leiden as a geographer and put in charge of the university library, but his life's project, as 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 extensive travels and local surveys.