Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Title:: Historia mundi, or, Mercator's atlas : containing his cosmographicall descriptions of the fabricke and figure of the world / lately rectified in diuers places, as also beutified and enlarged with new mapps and tables by the studious industrie of Iodocus Hondy ; englished by W.S. generosus & regin. Oxoniae.
Alternate Title(s):: Historia mvndi or Mercator's atlas
Edition:: Second edytion
Published / Created:: London : Printed for Michaell Sparke, and are to be sowld in greene Arbowre, 1637.
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([22], 56, 55-56, [2], 401, [1], 409-599, 520-566, 649-930, [32] pages, 5 leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:: Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:: Scales differ.
Notes:: Engraved title page with "G. Glo Inu. fecit." at foot of page.
Subject Terms:: Atlases, British -- Early works to 1800. | Atlases -- Early works to 1800. | Geography -- Early works to 1800. | Thorne Collection of Cartogaphy and Geography -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:: Atlases -- England -- London. | Woodcuts. | Engravings. | World atlases. | Atlases. | Early maps.
Contributors:: Hall, Ralph, active 1637, engraver. | Hondius, Jodocus, 1563–1612, cartographer. | Saltenstall, Wye, translator. | Sparke, Michael, -1653, printer, publisher, bookseller. | Glover, George, approximately 1618– engraver. | Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.