Accuratissima orbis antiqui delineatio. Sive Geographia vetus, sacra & profana. : Exhibens, quicquid imperiorum, regnorum, principatuum, rerumpublicarum, ab initio rerum, ad praesentem usque mundi statum fuit. Praemissa est introductio ad geographiam antiquam. Qua orbis vetus, gentium migrationes, populorum origines & quicquid historias illustrare potest, breviter refertur. / Authore Georgio Hornio Historiarum in Acad. Lugduno-Batava, Professore.
George Horn (1620-1670)
Category
Books
Date
1657
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3029799
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 30 p., [53] double leaves of plates (2 folded) : chiefly ill., maps ; fol. Hand-coloured plates. Index to plates has had seventeenth-century manuscript numbers 1-30, 30-50 and names of geographers added to it. Loose seventeenth-century manuscript note inserted after plate [43]. Additional plate inserted between plates [15]-[16]: Africæ Antiquæ, … edit[] à Nicolao Blancardo …. Second additional plate inserted between plates [43]-[44]: Europa Antiqua … Nicolaus Blancardus .... Third additional plate, numbered [47] in another hand, inserted between plates [46]-[47]: Asia Antiqua … Nicolaus Blancardus … Provenance: armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: seventeenth-century vellum over boards on seven recessed vellum thongs, yapp fore-edge. Manuscript spine title: Hornij Geographia Vetus.
Makers and roles
George Horn (1620-1670), author Humphrey Llwyd (1527-1568), cartographer Abraham Ortelius (1527 - 1598), cartographer Marcus Welser (Augsburg 1558 - Augsburg 1614), editor Pieter van den Keere (1571-1646), engraver (printmaker) Hamersveldt, Everard Symonsz van, 1591-1653, engraver (printmaker) Rogiers, Salomon, engraver (printmaker) Goos, Abraham, engraver (printmaker) Ende, Josua van den, engraver (printmaker) Ewich, Hermann, 1601-1673, mapmaker Saevry, S, engraver (printmaker)