Atlas, or A geographicke description of the regions, countries, and kingdomes of the world : through Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, represented by new & exact maps (v.1, pp.69-70)
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Title: Atlas, or A geographicke description of the regions, countries, and kingdomes of the world : through Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, represented by new & exact maps (v.1, pp.69-70)
Classmark: Channel Islands Collection A-0.4/MER
Creator(s): Mercator, Gerhard (1512-1594)
Additional creator(s): Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612) (Other); Hexham, Henry (1585?-1650?) (Other)
Related people: Hondius, Jodocus; Hexham, Henry
Publisher: Hondius and Iohnson
Publication city: Amsterdam
Date(s): 1636
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/244866
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991014892659705181
Description
The only edition to be published with the text in English of the famous Mercator and Hondius Atlas, i.e. the Mercator's atlas of 1595, much enlarged by Hondius in 1606. The title-pages are those of the (6th) French edition of 1633, with the English titles pasted over the French--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 27.
By Gerhard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius.
STC 17827; Phillips 229.
Additional description
One sheet, with note attached, formerly pp. 69-70 of Mercator's Atlas, translated by Hexham. This sheet contains maps of Anglesey, Wight, Guernsey and Jersey, these last in scales of ca. 2 in.: 5 miles and 1 in.: 2 miles respectively. In map chest
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