Cosmography. in four books. Containing the chorography and history of the whole world: and all the principal kingdoms, provinces, seas, and the isles thereof. By Peter Heylyn. Improv'd with an historical continuation to the present times, by Edmund Bohun, Esq; With a large and more accurate index, than was in any of the former editions, of all the kingdoms, provinces, countries, inhabitants, peoples, cities, mountains, rivers, seas, islands, forts, bays, capes, forests, &c. of any remarque in the whole world: revised and cleared from a multitude of mistakes, which had crept into former impressions. And five new-engraved maps, according to the best and most exact projection.
Peter Heylyn (1600-1662)
Category
Books
Date
1703
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3215687
Summary
Bibliographic description
[The 7th edition, corrected & inlarged by Edmund Bohun Esq.] [12], 288, [2], 315-567,[3],595-1132,[36] p., [5] folded leaves of plates : maps ; fol. Old Felbrigg shelfmarks: [in pencil at front] J8. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge style panelled calf; blind ruled spine, gilt lettered: Heylyn's Cosmography.
Makers and roles
Peter Heylyn (1600-1662), author Edmund Bohun (1645-1699), editor