(Text Page to) The North Pole and description of the covntries sitvate round about it. (to accompany) Historia mundi : or Mercator's atlas. London Printed for Michaell Sparke, and are to be sowld in Greene Arboiure, 1637. Second edytion.
Text to the North Pole. 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...
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ftdavidrumseyc:oai:N/A:RUMSEY~8~1~293850~90064658 2024-09-15T18:24:55+00:00 (Text Page to) The North Pole and description of the covntries sitvate round about it. (to accompany) Historia mundi : or Mercator's atlas. London Printed for Michaell Sparke, and are to be sowld in Greene Arboiure, 1637. Second edytion. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas : Containing his cosmographicall description of the fabricke and figure of the world. Lately rectified in divers places, as also beautified and enlarged with new mappes and tables; by the studious industry of Iudocus Hondy. Englished by W.S. generosus, & Coll. Regin. Oxoniae. London Printed for Michaell Sparke, and are to be sowld in Greene Arboiure, 1637. Second edytion. Text Page: (Continues) The North Pole Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594 Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612 Saltonstall, Wye Sparke, Michael Goulart, James 1637 Full Image Download in JP2 Format 29 18 https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~293850~90064658 https://media.davidrumsey.com/MediaManager/srvr?mediafile=/Size4/RUMSEY~8~1/171/11248067.jpg unknown T. Cotes for Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright London 11248.000 https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~293850~90064658 https://media.davidrumsey.com/MediaManager/srvr?mediafile=/Size4/RUMSEY~8~1/171/11248067.jpg 11248.067 World Atlas Text Page 1637 ftdavidrumseyc 2024-08-09T09:16:22Z Text to the North Pole. 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 issued map of Virginia by Ralph Hall: "there is no Map for Virginia in regard there is a more exact Map drawing in that Country, whose Platforme is not yet come over, but when it comes, every buyer of the Booke shall have it given him gratis" (see errata on verso of final leaf). "Wye Saltonstall intended in his first edition of the "Historia Mundi" a map of Virginia. In acquiring the Mercator-Hondius copperplates used first in the "Atlas Minor" of 1607, he only possessed one of Virginia and Florida, which covers the area south of Chesapeake Bay. Since that time the Jamestown colony had become important, ... Text North Pole David Rumsey Historical Map Collection (Cartography Associates) |
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Text to the North Pole. 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 issued map of Virginia by Ralph Hall: "there is no Map for Virginia in regard there is a more exact Map drawing in that Country, whose Platforme is not yet come over, but when it comes, every buyer of the Booke shall have it given him gratis" (see errata on verso of final leaf). "Wye Saltonstall intended in his first edition of the "Historia Mundi" a map of Virginia. In acquiring the Mercator-Hondius copperplates used first in the "Atlas Minor" of 1607, he only possessed one of Virginia and Florida, which covers the area south of Chesapeake Bay. Since that time the Jamestown colony had become important, ... |
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Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594 Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612 Saltonstall, Wye Sparke, Michael Goulart, James (Text Page to) The North Pole and description of the covntries sitvate round about it. (to accompany) Historia mundi : or Mercator's atlas. London Printed for Michaell Sparke, and are to be sowld in Greene Arboiure, 1637. Second edytion. |
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(Text Page to) The North Pole and description of the covntries sitvate round about it. (to accompany) Historia mundi : or Mercator's atlas. London Printed for Michaell Sparke, and are to be sowld in Greene Arboiure, 1637. Second edytion. |
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(Text Page to) The North Pole and description of the covntries sitvate round about it. (to accompany) Historia mundi : or Mercator's atlas. London Printed for Michaell Sparke, and are to be sowld in Greene Arboiure, 1637. Second edytion. |
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(Text Page to) The North Pole and description of the covntries sitvate round about it. (to accompany) Historia mundi : or Mercator's atlas. London Printed for Michaell Sparke, and are to be sowld in Greene Arboiure, 1637. Second edytion. |
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(Text Page to) The North Pole and description of the covntries sitvate round about it. (to accompany) Historia mundi : or Mercator's atlas. London Printed for Michaell Sparke, and are to be sowld in Greene Arboiure, 1637. Second edytion. |
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(Text Page to) The North Pole and description of the covntries sitvate round about it. (to accompany) Historia mundi : or Mercator's atlas. London Printed for Michaell Sparke, and are to be sowld in Greene Arboiure, 1637. Second edytion. |
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