Typus orbis terrarum : domini est terra & plenitudo, ejus, orbis terrarum, & universi qui habitant in eo : Psalmo 24. (at head of the sheet) Of the world. (to accompany) Historia mundi : or Mercator's atlas. London Printed for Michaell Sparke, and are to be sowld in Greene Arboiure, 1637. Second edytion.

Copper-engraving, uncolored double hemisphere map of the world, reduced version of Mercator`s famous world map includes several updates. The map is richly decorated in a strapwork surround with the title at top, the word ""Jehova"" in Hebrew just below. Showing Terra Australis In...

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Main Authors: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594, Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612, Saltonstall, Wye, Sparke, Michael, Goulart, James
Format: Map
Language:unknown
Published: T. Cotes for Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright 1637
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Summary:Copper-engraving, uncolored double hemisphere map of the world, reduced version of Mercator`s famous world map includes several updates. The map is richly decorated in a strapwork surround with the title at top, the word ""Jehova"" in Hebrew just below. Showing Terra Australis Incognita fills the Southern Hemisphere and connects to New Guinea in the region of Australia. Northwest Passage and interesting polar islands have been replaced with a non-descript landmass. The eastern coast of Asia has been revised to include a Korean Peninsula. Several place names noted in the map, including Anian, Tolm, Norumbega, Virginia and Florida. Second edition in English, translated from the Mercator Hondius 1607 Atlas Minor (see our copy 11201.000) by Wye Saltonstall. With engraved decorative title page dated 1637 that is filled with allegorical female figures, geographers measuring the globe within an architectural surrounding, and additional title page from the first edition, dated 1635, with the imprint: Printed by T. Cotes for Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright. The atlas is in 1032 pages, includes frontispiece "Englished by W.S.," dedications signed by Wye Saltonstall. Also includes preface, notes, 26 pages of tables, index, illustrations, diagrams, portrait, 930 pages of text and 184 maps. In full leather binding with raised spine. Maps with decorative cartouches, showing the boundaries, territories, topographical features, cities and towns, landmarks, rivers, forests, some maps with illustrations of sea monsters and sailing ships. Relief shown pictorially. Numerous errors in pagination. P. 905 bears a map of New Spain, a duplicate of that on p. 907, description of New Spaine read New Virginia, but there is no Map of Virginia. There is map of Virginia and Florida, which covers the area south of Chesapeake Bay, used first in the "Atlas Minor" of 1607. The map of Egypt: 'At Page 818. the single Map of Aegypt is to be pasted on the Page. Second printing in English, with a duplicate map of New Spain in place of the later ...