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.
1635
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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.
Uniform title
Atlas. English
Created/published
London : Printed by T. Cotes, for Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright, 1635.
Description
[24], 922 [i.e. 932], [32] p., 1 folded plate : maps ; (fol.)
Associated name
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594, author.
Cotes, Thomas, -1641, printer.
Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612.
Saltonstall, Wye, active 1630-1640.
Glover, George, approximately 1618- printmaker.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Cotes, Thomas, -1641, printer.
Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612.
Saltonstall, Wye, active 1630-1640.
Glover, George, approximately 1618- printmaker.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Note
Translator's dedication signed: Wye Saltonstall.
With an additional title page, engraved and signed "G. Glo: inu: fecit". with imprint "London printed for Michaell Sparke, and Samuell Cartwright. 1635.".
"Verses on verso of first leaf occur in two settings: one signed 'F. Q[uarles]', the other M. S[parke]' or unsigned."--STC.
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 without Cartwright's name in the letterpress title page imprint.
Signatures: pi² A⁶ a⁴ chi1 B-2L⁶ 2M⁶(-2M4,5,6); ²N-Z⁶ 3A-3H⁶ 3I⁴(3I4+ 2chi1) 3K-4L⁶ 4K⁶(-4K4) 4L-4N⁴ 4O².
Entered 8 November and 19 December 1632 and 3 March 1635.
With an additional title page, engraved and signed "G. Glo: inu: fecit". with imprint "London printed for Michaell Sparke, and Samuell Cartwright. 1635.".
"Verses on verso of first leaf occur in two settings: one signed 'F. Q[uarles]', the other M. S[parke]' or unsigned."--STC.
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 without Cartwright's name in the letterpress title page imprint.
Signatures: pi² A⁶ a⁴ chi1 B-2L⁶ 2M⁶(-2M4,5,6); ²N-Z⁶ 3A-3H⁶ 3I⁴(3I4+ 2chi1) 3K-4L⁶ 4K⁶(-4K4) 4L-4N⁴ 4O².
Entered 8 November and 19 December 1632 and 3 March 1635.
Folger-specific note
Curatorial file available.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo. DFONOTE jre: pag: [26], 401, [1], 409-566, 649-930, [32] p., 1 folded plate; folded plate is map of New England signed "Simon Passeus Sculpsit" and with imprint London Printed by Iames Reeue [1614], and is bound after ²4K3; edit 500 re verses variants, cf. S1589 and S107305; foot of ²4O2v 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 sanae doctrinae aut bonis moribus contrarium, quo minus cum utilitate publica Imprimatur; ita tamen ut si non intra biennium typis mandetur, haec licentia sit omnino irrita. Guilielmus Haywood Archiep. Cant. Capellanus Domest."
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2009-2010. Imagining China.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 17824
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S114540
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S114540
Genre/form
Atlases.
Imprimaturs.
Imprimaturs.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 17824
Folger-specific note
HH144/15. Verses (pi1v) in setting 2a, signed 'M. S.'. Map of Campania pasted to 2C6r; map of Namurcum pasted to ²V4r; folded map of Aegypt pasted to ²4A1v; extra leaf bearing map of Virginia bd. in before ²4H3, and intended to cancel map on ²4H3r. a4 torn and repaired, and V1 foxed, affecting text. Bookseller's description for the map of Virginia, numbered 42, pasted to front free end-paper. Sprinkled calf binding, rebacked. Provenance: armorial bookplate of Pauncefort - Duncombe (motto "non fecimus ipsi"); Sotheby's sale, March 1921, lot 156; collated at Quaritch, 5 April 1921; Harmsworth copy