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Atlas Minor : das ist: Eine kurtze jedoch gründliche Beschreibung der gantzen Weldt. In zwey Theile abgetheilet, Das Erste begriefft Gross Britannien... [etc.]

Archive Print Item: Whitaker Collection 33

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Type of record: Book

Title: Atlas Minor : das ist: Eine kurtze jedoch gründliche Beschreibung der gantzen Weldt. In zwey Theile abgetheilet, Das Erste begriefft Gross Britannien... [etc.]

Level: Item

Classmark: Whitaker Collection 33

Creator(s): Mercator, Gerhard (1512-1594)

Additional creator(s): Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612) (Other); Keere, Pieter van den (1571-1624) (Other)

Related people: Hondius, Jodocus; Keere, Pieter van den

Publisher: ex officina Ioannis Ianssonii

Publication city: Amstelodami

Date(s): 1651

Language: German

Size and medium: 2 v in 1 ([12], 460, [4]; [2], 428, [2] p)

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298165

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003842359705181

Description

Similar to the edition of 1631 but containing, in addition, eight little known English county maps, viz.:- of Cumberland, Devon, Yorkshire, Norfolk, ambridge, Oxford, Hereford and Essex, as well as a plate of the islands of Anglesey, Wight, Guernsey and Jersey. The maps of Devon, Yorkshire, Norfolk, Hereford and Essex were engraved by Peter Keer, probably a considerable time before. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 31.


Contents: 1. Bd. Gross Britannien, Die Mitternächtige Länder, Teuschland und Niederland.--2. Bd. Franckreich, Hispanien, Italien, Asia, Africa und America.


Indexed in: Phillips 3426.

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