| Ref No | EFP/094/1635/11 |
| Finding Number | AQ 094/1635/11 |
| 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. Oxoniæ |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 1637 |
| Description | Atlas. English; Mercator's atlas
With an additional title page, engraved and signed "G. Glo: inu: fecit", with imprint: London printed for Michaell Sparke, and are to be sowld in greene Arbowre 1637 second edytion.; Map (plate), with title and imprint "New England the most remarqueable parts thus named by the high and mighty Prince Charles, nowe king of great Britaine London printed by Iames Reeue", signed: Simon Passeus sculpsit.; Signatures: pi[sup]2[sup] A[sup]6[sup] a[sup]4[sup] B-F[sup]6; [sup]2B-2L[sup]6[sup] 2M[sup]6(-2M4,5,6); [sup]3N-Z[sup]6, 3A-3H[sup]6[sup] 3I[sup]4(3I4+chi1) 3K-4I[sup]6[sup] 4K[sup]6(-4K4) 4L-4N[sup]4[sup] 4O[sup]2.; Imprimatur at foot of leaf 4O2v: Decemb. 19. 1633. Recensui hanc ... publica imprimatur; ... Guilielmus Haywood Archiep. Cant. Capellanus Domest.; The verses on verso of first leaf occur in two settings, one with two states: signed (1) "F[rancis]. Q[uarles].", or (2a) "M[ichael]. S[parke]." or (2b) unsigned.; P. 905 bears a map of New Spain, a duplicate of that on p. 907. A map of Virginia, printed after the book was issued, is intended to be pasted over it.; A reissue of STC 17824, with added engraved title page and its conjugate.; -pi1; pi2 mounted; several leaves including t.p. and plate repaired, occasionally affecting text; 4G3 stained; map of New Zealand backed; map of Virginia between 4H1 and 4H2; folded map of Aegyptus bound between 4A1 and 4A2; 278842.; Includes index.; Mercator's atlas.; Microfilm.; S1589.; Translator's dedication signed: Wye Saltonstall.
[Second edytion] |
| Author | Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594; Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612, ed; Saltonstall, Wye, fl. 1630-1640, tr; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver |
| Subject | Atlases, English; Geography, Political |
| Physical Description | [24], 56, 55-56, [2], 401, [1], 409-599, 520-566, 649-930, [32] p., 1 folded leaf of plates : maps (metal cuts), ill. (woodcuts) ; 2j. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | London : Printed by T. Cotes, for Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright, 1635 [i.e. 1637] |