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A leaf from the Mercator-Hondius world atlas, edition of 1619

Title: A leaf from the Mercator-Hondius world atlas, edition of 1619 / with an essay by Norman J.W. Thrower.
Author: Thrower, Norman J. W. (Norman Joseph William)
Publication: Fullerton, Calif. : Stone & Lorson, 1985.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP+++ (Reagh) 85-279	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

Additional Authors

Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594.

Description

[7], 23, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., col. map.; 50 cm.

Alternative Title

Mercator-Hondius leaf.

Subjects

Note

115 copies designed by Vance Gerry and printed by Patrick Reagh, Los Angeles. One of 89 in publisher's binding by Kater-Crafts Bookbinders of quarter vellum and gray paper boards with gilt ornament. Issued in slipcase.
Title on spine: A Mercator-Hondius leaf.
Ill. on endpapers and ill. and ornaments in text derived from originals in the 1619 ed. of the atlas.
The leaf, properly 2 leaves, being a double-page hand-col. map with the relevant text in French on respective recto and verso of each leaf, is detached from: Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas sive Cosmographicæ meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura.--Denuò auctus ... Editio quarta. Amsterodami : Sumptibus & typis æneis Judoci Hondij, 1619.

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Call Number

*KP+++ (Reagh) 85-279

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Author

Thrower, Norman J. W. (Norman Joseph William)

Title

A leaf from the Mercator-Hondius world atlas, edition of 1619 / with an essay by Norman J.W. Thrower.

Imprint

Fullerton, Calif. : Stone & Lorson, 1985.

Bibliography

Bibliography: p. 23.

Local Note

NYPL copy has "Forum Iulium, Karstia, Carniola, Histria et Windorum Marchia" with p. 303-304 of text (sig. 6Q).

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Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594. Atlas. French. 1619.

Added Title

Mercator-Hondius leaf.

Research Call Number

*KP+++ (Reagh) 85-279