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[HISTORY] - Mapping Empires: Botero’s Political Geography with Early Global Maps - BOTERO Giovanni (1544 - 1617) - Giovanni Botero – Mundus Imperiorum. Cologne, Bertram Buchholtz, 1598. 4to; [48], 126, [2], 127–147, [3] pp. 5 engraved folding maps including world map. Contemporary limp vellum. Very good, complete with all maps. Rare first Latin edition of this epitome of Botero’s Relationi universali, notable for its early maps (after Ortelius and Matal). A major work on political geography and early demographics.