[Gerardi Mercatoris et I. Hondii Atlas, Das ist, Abbildung der gantzen Welt, mit allen darin begriffenen Ländern und Provintzen: : Sonderlich von Teutschland, Franckreich, Nidrland, Ost und West Indien: Mit Beschreibung der selben]
Mercator, Gerhard,1512-1594.
Hondius, Jodocus,1563-1612.
Hondius, Hendrik,1573-
A Amsterdam ; chez Henry Hondius ...,
1633..
Relief shown pictorially.
German text in two columns.
Engraved allegorical title page with coats of arms, and French letterpress title.
Letterpress title of German editions is usually pasted over the French text, but is wanting in this case.
Although the French title gives the atlas as being in two volumes, this German edition was issued in one volume only, although a two volume German edition was also produced in the same year.
Includes biographies of Mercator and Hondius, Latin epigrams, and an engraved portrait of them with globes, map and scientific instruments.
Includes decorated initials and tailpieces.
Wants map "Anglia Regnum" - it has been replaced in the sequence by a second copy of "Magnae Britanniae ..." although the text and page numbering is correct.
Map of Scotland "Scotia Regnum" catalogued separately.
Wants pages 677-680, but has map "Accuratissima Brasilia tabula".
Wants pages 681-684, including map "Freti Magellanici ...delineatio".
Tipped in: "Tabula Magellanica qua Tierrae del Fuego, cum celeberrimis fretis a F. Magellano et I. Le Maire detectis" by Joannes Jansonnius.
Wants "Register der taffeln oder mappen indiesem Atlas begriffen".
Koeman,
Van der Krogt, P., Koeman Atlantes Neerlandici,
John Bartholomew Collection.
Atlases, Dutch