| Summary: | Includes a history of Dutch voyages to Greenland with black and white map of the Arctic showing voyages, p. 128-144. "Animadversiones ad Bataviam Cornelii Haemrodii" on p. 21-35, 5th count. "Cornelii Haemrodii Amstelodamensis Bataviae urbiumque omnium inter Helium et Flevum brevis descriptio" on p. 8-20, 5th count. "Hollandiae urbiumque eius et præsertim Amstelodamensis oppidi fusior descriptio, autore anonymo . " on p. 1-7, 5th count. Additional brief articles in the vol. include the following, each of which has a caption title and running title, and follow the main text of Pontanus. Errata statements on final printed page. Signatures: (.·.)⁴A-Nn⁴(italic)A-E⁴+1. Engraved title page. Some illustrations and plans are signed by the cartographer, Benjamin Wright ("Beniamin W., coelator") who is credited in Thieme-Becker with the entire artistc content. Sabin Thieme-Becker. Künstler-Lexikon Tooley, R.V. Dict. of mapmakers Mode of access: Internet. Vellum on boards, gold-embossed binding. On t.p., top margin: Til G'r Willem de Clercg fra Holm; bottom margin (another hand): Amicus Amico. Title page and 50 illustrations, maps, plans, initials hand-colored. Title-page and occasional illustrations illuminated as well. One map and one plan black and white, perhaps those noted in pencil on fly-leaf as "from another copy". All folded maps and plans are hinged in -- that designated for p. 145 placed instead at p. 246.
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