Atlas or A geographicke description of the regions, countries and kingdomes of the world, through Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, represented by new & exact maps. Translated by Henry Hexham, quarter-maister to the regiment of Colonell Goring.
Gerardus Mercator (Rupelmonde 1512 -Duisburg 1594)
Category
Books
Date
1636
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3221594.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol. 1 (contains all up to leaf 216 plus register leaf) : ill., maps (metal cuts), port. ; fol. Contemporary hand-colouring throughout. Without the English title and imprint slips, i.e. original engraved French title and imprint intact. Imperfect: wanting half-title, leaves 38-42, 105-106, and some leaves following leaf 216. Some water-staining on leaves throughout both vols. Ephemera loosely inserted at front: [1] Envelope containing the original English imprint slip; written on envelope in Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer's (1906-1969) characteristic hand: "The enclosed label, which was loose in the volume, was apparently intended to be pasted on the lozenge in the bottom of the title-page". [2] Part of leaf from bookseller's catalogue ('William H. Robinson Ltd. 16 and 17 Pall Mall, London, S.W.1') containing entry for Mercator's Atlas, valued at £150. Binding: contemporary seventeenth-century blind-tooled vellum; sewn onto five raised bands; blind panel design on covers, with blind floral and strapwork centrepiece stamp and floral cornerpiece stamps; two pairs of green linen ties on each vol.; gold-tooled spines (discoloured, very dark) with some repairs; gilt title and vol. number on red goatskin label on spines. Red sprinkled textblock edges. New endpapers.
Makers and roles
Gerardus Mercator (Rupelmonde 1512 -Duisburg 1594) Jodocus Hondius the elder (1563 - Amsterdam 1612) Henry Hexham (1585-1650) Hendrik Hondius (1597-1651) Johannes Janssonius (Arnhem 1588 - Amsterdam 1664)