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Creator:: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Title:: 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.
Alternate Title(s):: Mercator's atlas
Published / Created:: London : Printed by T. Cotes, for Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright, 1635.
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([22], 401, [1], 409-599, 520-566, 649-930, [32] pages, 2 leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps (1 folded) ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:: Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:: Scales differ.
Notes:: Dedication signed Wye Saltonstall.
Subject Terms:: Atlases -- Early works to 1800. | Atlases, British -- Early works to 1800. | Geography -- Early works to 1800. | Griffith, William -- Autograph. | American Antiquarian Society -- Stamp.
Form/Genre:: Annotations (Provenance) -- 17th century. | Atlases. | World atlases.
Contributors:: Hondius, Jodocus, 1563–1612, cartographer. | Saltonstall, Wye, active 1630–1640, translator. | Glover, George, approximately 1618– engraver. | Cotes, Thomas, -1641, printer. | Sparke, Michael, -1645, publisher. | Cartwright, Samuel, -1650, publisher. | Reeve, James, printer.