Historia mundi, or Mercator's atlas
Title
Historia mundi, or Mercator's atlas
Alternative 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..
Creator
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594.
Publisher
London : Printed by T. Cotes, for Michael Sparke.
Date
1635
Format
[26], 401, 409-599, 520-566, 649-930, [32] pages, [1] leaf of plates : maps (engravings) ; (fol.)
Description
Translator's dedication signed: Wye Saltonstall.
Signatures: pi² A⁶ a⁴ B-2L⁶ 2M² (2M2 + "Mm3") ²N-²Z⁶ 3A-3H⁶ 3I⁴ (I4 + ²chi1) 3K-4K⁶ ( -4K4) 4L-4N⁴ 4O².
With an additional title page, engraved and signed "G. Glo: inu: fecit", with imprint "London printed for Michaell Sparke, and Samuell. Cartwright. 1635."
Numerous errors in pagination; actual pagination calculated from signature collation.
Includes index.
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 variant of the edition which has Samuel Cartwright's name in the letterpress title page imprint.
Inprimatur at foot of 4O2v reads: "Decemb. 19. 1633. Recensui hanc Anglicanam versionem Atlantis Minoris a Ioan. Mercator Belgico olim Latinè editam, qui quidem liber continet Fol 772. aut circiter, in quibus nihil reperio sanæ doctrinæ aut bonis moribus contrarium, quo minus cum utilitate publica Imprimatur; ita tamen ut si non intra biennium typis mandetur, hæc licentia sit omnino irrita. Guilielmus Haywood Archiep. Cant. Capellanus Domest."
"The meaning of the frontispiece" signed "M. S."; one extra unsigned leaf bound after a4, reading in part "VVhy many new atlasses are printed. ..." and signed, "P. W."; duplicate map on p. 905 as issued; map of "The county of Mamurcium" pasted to ²V4r; map of Campania pasted to 2C6r; folded map of Ægypt pasted to 4A1v; without the folding plate.
Signatures: pi² A⁶ a⁴ B-2L⁶ 2M² (2M2 + "Mm3") ²N-²Z⁶ 3A-3H⁶ 3I⁴ (I4 + ²chi1) 3K-4K⁶ ( -4K4) 4L-4N⁴ 4O².
With an additional title page, engraved and signed "G. Glo: inu: fecit", with imprint "London printed for Michaell Sparke, and Samuell. Cartwright. 1635."
Numerous errors in pagination; actual pagination calculated from signature collation.
Includes index.
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 variant of the edition which has Samuel Cartwright's name in the letterpress title page imprint.
Inprimatur at foot of 4O2v reads: "Decemb. 19. 1633. Recensui hanc Anglicanam versionem Atlantis Minoris a Ioan. Mercator Belgico olim Latinè editam, qui quidem liber continet Fol 772. aut circiter, in quibus nihil reperio sanæ doctrinæ aut bonis moribus contrarium, quo minus cum utilitate publica Imprimatur; ita tamen ut si non intra biennium typis mandetur, hæc licentia sit omnino irrita. Guilielmus Haywood Archiep. Cant. Capellanus Domest."
"The meaning of the frontispiece" signed "M. S."; one extra unsigned leaf bound after a4, reading in part "VVhy many new atlasses are printed. ..." and signed, "P. W."; duplicate map on p. 905 as issued; map of "The county of Mamurcium" pasted to ²V4r; map of Campania pasted to 2C6r; folded map of Ægypt pasted to 4A1v; without the folding plate.
Provenance
Purchased on the Schulich-Woolf fund.
Contributor
Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612.
Saltonstall, Wye, active 1630-1640.
Glover, George, approximately 1618-
Cotes, Thomas, -1641, printer.
Sparke, Michael, -1653, bookseller.
Saltonstall, Wye, active 1630-1640.
Glover, George, approximately 1618-
Cotes, Thomas, -1641, printer.
Sparke, Michael, -1653, bookseller.
Language
English
Identifier
Folio Dated 1635 .M46 STC (2nd ed.), 17824.5
ESTC, S107305
ESTC, S107305
Files
Collection
Citation
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594. , “Historia mundi, or Mercator's atlas,” Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection, accessed April 24, 2024, https://schulichwoolf.omeka.net/items/show/739.