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 ... Jodocus Hondey. Englished by W[ye] S[altonstall].

  • Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Date:
1635
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London : T. Cotes for M. Sparke & S. Cartwright, 1635.

Physical description

12 unnumbered leaves, 930 pages, 17 unnumbered leaves : engr. title page & maps, (1 folded) ; (folio)

References note

STC 17824
ESTC S114540
STC (2nd ed.), 17824

Notes

Copy 1 Note: There are 11 extra MS. maps (5 fldg.) inserted, and the original maps and engraved title-page are lightly coloured by hand. Some marginal MS. notes and 4 fly-leaves with geographical notes in the same hand. The two at the beginning concern Ireland, those at the end are headed 'the English Empire in America'. These notes seem to have been written about 1680, the latest date given is a reference to the 'Port-town of Charleston', Carolina.

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