1542 DESCRIPTION of ASIA AFRICA & EUROPE Johann Boehme antique GRYPHIUS PRESS

Boehme Johann

Mores, leges, et ritus omnium gentium...

Lugduni: apud Seb. Gryphium; 1541

Describes Africa, Asia and Europe

Early binding, lacks vellum on the covers, vellum spine with title label.

Bookblock loose, minor toning, title page loose

 Size 4 1/4 by 6 1/4"

Text in Latin
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Johann Boemus (also Bohm or Bohemus; c.?1485 – 1535) was a German humanist, canon of Ulm Minster, traveller, and Hebraist. He was compiler and author of the first ethnographic compendium of the early modern period in Europe.

His Omnium Gentium Mores, Leges et Ritus was published in 1520. It was reprinted multiple times in the sixteenth century, including a 1571 edition.
It influenced Sebastian Muenster's Cosmography, and helped inspire the Hauptchronik of Sebastian Franck.
It helped set the stage for subsequent investigations of the connections of law to culture, including Paul Henri Mallett's Northern Antiquities (1770)

 This book is cited as the first scientific approach to ethnography available in English.
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