Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594, Atlas siue Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura , anno 1595
- Title(s):
- Atlas siue Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura / Gerardo Mercatore Rupelmundano ...
- Additional Title(s):
- Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra
- Published/Created:
- Dusseldorpii : Excudebat Albertus Busius ... typographus, sumptibus haeredum Gerardi Mercatoris Rupelmundani, anno 1595.
- Physical Description:
- 1 atlas ([14], 32, [16] pages, [254] leaves) : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 43 cm (folio)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio A 2023 50 Copy 2Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio A 2023 50 Copy 1Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12454472
- Classification:
- Maps & Atlas (printed)
- Scale:
- Scales differ.
- Notes:
- Relief shown pictorially.
Imprint from colophon at end of first part.
"Rumoldus Mercator brought out the third part in 1595, a few months after his father's death"--Phillips.
With a separate engraved title page for each of the five parts: [Part I]. Atlantis pars altera. Geographia noua totius mundi. [Part 2]. Gallia tabul[a]e geographicae. [Part 3]. Belgii in ferioris geographicae tabul[a]e. [Part 4]. Italiae, Sclauoniae et Graeciae tabul[a]e geographic[a]e. [Part 5]. Germaniae tabul[a]e geographicae.
Errata for part 1 on page [5].
Includes indexes.
Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, Me 13A
Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 730
List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 5918
Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), K2334
BAC Folio A 2023 50 Copy 1: Contents match the description of Koeman Me 13a. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, in four volumes (parts 2 and 3, Gallia and Belgii, together in one volume). Plates are not hand colored. Each volume is inscribed: Ex. don. Ferdinand Ughelli, abbanis vinitatoris maioris [?], 1651. Volume 1 with an unidentified armorial bookplate.
BAC Folio A 2023 50 Copy 2: Contents match the description of Koeman Me 13a, except for significant variants in the preliminiaries. Bound in contemporary vellum over boards. Plates are hand-colored. Annotated in manuscript on title page: Bibliothec[ae] S. Mari[ae] Transpontin[ae]. - Subject Terms:
- Chiesa di Santa Maria in Traspontina (Rome, Italy) -- Ownership.Geography -- Early works to 1800.Ughelli, Ferdinando, 1595–1670 -- Ownership.
- Form/Genre:
- World atlases.
- Export:
- XML
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