Gerardi Mercatoris atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura
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- Map 1. Orbis Terræ compendiosa descriptio / quam ex magna universali Gerardi Mercatoris Domino Richardo Gartho, geographię ac cęterarum bonarum artium amatori ac fautori summo, in veteris amicitię ac familiaritatis memoriā Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat A°.M.D.LXXXVII -- Map 2. Europa / ad magnæ Europæ Gerardi Mercatoris P. imitationem, Rumoldi Mercatoris F. cura edita, servato tamen initio longitudinus ex ratione magnetis, quod Pater in magna sua universali posuit -- Map 3. Nova Europæ descriptio / auctore Iodoco Hondio -- Map 4. Africa: Ex magna orbis terrę descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta, studio & industria / G.M. Iunioris -- Map 5. Asia: Ex magna orbis terrę descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta, studio & industria / G.M. Iunioris -- Map 6. America sive India Nova: Ad magnæ Gerardi Mercatoris avi Universalis imitationem, in compendium redacta / per Michaelem Mercatorem Duysburgensem -- Map 7. Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio -- Map 8. Islandia -- Map 9. Anglia, Scotia et Hibernia -- Map 10. Irlandiæ Regnum -- Map 11. Udrone, Irlandiæ: In Catherlagh Baronia -- Map 12. [Ultonia and Connatia] -- Map 13. Ultoniæ Orientalis: Pars -- Map 14. Irlandiæ Regnum -- Map 15. Scotia, Regnum -- Map 16. [Scotland] -- Map 17. Scotiæ Regnum -- Map 18. Anglia Regnum -- Map 19. Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus -- Map 20. Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria, Caernarvan, Denbigh, Flint, Merionidh, Montgomery, Salopia: Cum insulis Mania et Anglesey -- Map 21. Cambriæ Typus / auctore Humfre Do Lhuydo ; Denbigiense Cambrobritanno ; Petrus Kærius cœla. -- Map 22. Cornubia, Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monumetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Penbrok, Cardigan, Radnor, Breknoke, Herefordia, et Wigornia -- Map 23. Eboracum, Lincolnia, Derbia, Staffordia, Notinghamia, Lecestria, Rutlandia, et Norfolcia -- Map 24. Warwicum, Northhamtonia, Huntingdonia, Cantabrigia, Suffolcia, Oxonium, Buckinghamia, Bedfordia, Hartfordia, Essexia, Berceria, Middelsexia, Southhātonia, Surria, Cantiū & Southsexia -- Map 25. Anglesey -- Map 26. Garnesay -- Map 27. Wight Vectis olim. -- Map 28. Iarsay. -- Map 29. Suecia et Noruegia: Cum confinys -- Map 30. Daniæ Regnū -- Map 31. Iutia septentrionalis -- Map 32. Holsatia ducatus -- Map 33. Fionia -- Map 34. Prussia -- Map 35. Livonia -- Map 36. Russia [inset map: Russia pars amplificata] -- Map 37. Lithuania -- Map 38. Transylvania -- Map 39. Taurica Chersonesus: Nostra ætate Przecopsca et Gazara dicitur -- Map 40. Hispaniæ nova describtio: de integro multis inlocis, secundum hydrographicas, describtio emendata / Petrus Kærius sculpsit ; Judocus Hondius excud. -- Map 41. Legionis, Biscaiæ et Guipiscoæ typus -- Map 42. Castiliæ veteris et nova descriptio, anno 1606 -- Map 43. Andaluziae nova descript. / I. Hondius, 1606 -- Map 44. Regni Valentiæ typus -- Map 45. Arragonia et Catalonia -- Map 46. Gallia -- Map 47. Britannia & Normandia: cum confinib° regionibus -- Map 48. Totius Lemovici et confinium provinciarum quantum ad diocesin Lemovicensen spectant: Novissima et fidissima descriptio [inset map: Plan de la Ville de Lymoges] / aut. Jo. Fayano M. L. ; Petrus Kærius cælavit -- Map 49. Aquitania australis Regnū Arelatense cum confinijs -- Map 50. Provinciæ, Regionis Galliæ, vera exactissimaq[ue] descriptio = Provence / Petro Ioanne Bompario auctore
- Map 51. France, Picardie, Champaigne: Cum regionibus adiacentibus -- Map 52. L'Isle de France: Parisiẽsis agri descriptio / auctore F. Guilloterio Biturigi -- Map 53. Bolonia & Guines comitatus -- Map 54. Aniou -- Map 55. Berry ducatus -- Map 56. Poictou sive Pictauiæ descriptio -- Map 57. Lotharingia ducatus -- Map 58. [Southern Lotharingia] -- Map 59. Burgundia ducatus -- Map 60. [Burgundia comitatus] -- Map 61. Helvetia: Cum finitimis regionibus confœderatis -- Map 62. [Northern Switzerland] -- Map 63. Das Wiflispur Gergov -- Map 64. Chorographica tabula Lacus Lemanni: Locorumqve Circumiacentium / autore I A C. ; G. Genevensi -- Map 65. [Argow and Zurichgow] -- Map 66. Belgij: Inferioris descriptio emendata cum circumiacentium regionű confinijs -- Map 67. Flandria Comit. -- Map 68. Habes hic Novam & accuratißimam descriptionem tractus illius Flandriæ per quẽ superioribus hisce annis anno scilicet Christi 1600. et sequentibus atq[ue] imprimis anno 1604. et hoc 1605 / Petrus Kærius cælavit -- Map 69. [Brabant, Dlant Van Luyck, Gulic, and Stift Coln] -- Map 70. Hollandt comitatus: Utricht episcop. -- Map 71. Zelandia comitatus -- Map 72. Geldria et Transysulana -- Map 73. Artesia comit. -- Map 74. Hannonia: Namurcum Comitatus -- Map 75. Trier et Lutzenburg -- Map 76. Germania -- Map 77. Frisia occidentalis -- Map 78. Emden & Oldenborch comit. -- Map 79. Westfalia: Cum Diœcesi Bremensi -- Map 80. [Westphalia] -- Map 81. Berghe ducatus Marck comitatus et Coloniensis diœcesis -- Map 82. Leodiensis dioecesis typus / Baptiste Doetecomius sculp. -- Map 83. Mürs comitatus [2 inset maps: Murs Oppidum et Arx -- Modiliana] / per Joh. Mercatorem -- Map 84. Regionum Urbium et fluminum quę potissimũ comitatum Mürs ambiunt breuis descriptio [inset map: Castellum Middelaer] -- Map 85. Waldeck: Comitatus -- Map 86. Palatinatus Rheni -- Map 87. Wirtenberg ducatus -- Map 88. Alsatia Inferior -- Map 89. Alsatia superior cū Suntgoia & Brisgoia -- Map 90. Saxonia inferior et Meklenborg duc. -- Map 91. Braunswyck & Meydburg cum cęteris adiacentibus -- Map 92. Hassia landtgraviatus -- Map 93. Thuringia -- Map 94. Franckenlandt: Francia orientalis -- Map 95. Bavaria ducatus -- Map 96. Palatinatus Bavariae -- Map 97. Saxoniae superioris Lusatiae Misniæque descriptio -- Map 98. Marca Brandenburgensis & Pomerania -- Map 99. Nova famigerabilis insulae ac ducatus Rugiae descriptio / inscripta ab E. Lubino -- Map 100. Bohemia
- Map 101. Moravia -- Map 102. Austria archiducatus -- Map 103. Saltzburg archiepiscopatus cum ducatu Carinthiæ -- Map 104. Polonia et Silesia -- Map 105. Hungaria -- Map 106. Italia -- Map 107. Lombardiae Alpestris pars occidentalis cum Valesia -- Map 108. Tarvisina Marchia et Tirolis comitatus -- Map 109. Pedemontana regio cum Genuensium territorio & Montisferrati Marchionatu -- Map 110. Romandiola cum Parmensi ducatu -- Map 111. Brescia episcopatus Mediolanū ducatus -- Map 112. Veronae Vicentiae et Patauii ditiones -- Map 113. Forum Iulium, Karstia, Carniola, Histria et Windorum Marchia -- Map 114. Tuscia -- Map 115. Marchia Anconitana cum Spoletano ducatu -- Map 116. Latium nunc Campagna di Roma -- Map 117. Abruzzo et Terra di Lavoro -- Map 118. Puglia Piana, Terra di Barri, Terra di Otranto, Calabria et Basilicata -- Map 119. Corscica -- Map 120. Sardinia -- Map 121. Siciliae Regnum. -- Map 122. Stiria -- Map 123. Sclavonia, Croatia, Bosnia cum Dalmatiae parte -- Map 124. Walachia Servia, Bulgaria, Romania -- Map 125. Græcia -- Map 126. Macedonia Epirus et Achaia -- Map 127. Morea olim Peloponnesus -- Map 128. Candia cum insulis aliquot circa Græcia [6 ancillary maps: Corfu -- Zante -- Milo -- Nicsia -- Santorini -- Scarpanto] -- Map 129. Nova Africæ Tabula / auctore Jodoco Hondio -- Map 130. Barbaria [2 ancillary maps: [Cartaginis] -- [Aegyptus]] -- Map 131. Fessæ et Marocchi Regna [inset map: Penõn de Velez] -- Map 132. Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Ioannis Imperiũ. [inset map: Congi Regni in Africa Christiani nova descriptio] -- Map 133. Guinea nova descriptio [inset map: I. S. Thomæ] -- Map 134. Asiæ nova descriptio / auctore Jodoco Hondio -- Map 135. Turcici Imperii imago -- Map 136. Terra Sancta quæ in Sacris Terra Promissionis ol. Palestina -- Map 137. Natoliæ sive Asia Minor -- Map 138. Cyprus Ins. [6 ancillary maps: Stalimini I. -- Chius Insul. -- Mitilene Ins. -- Negroponte In. -- Cerigo Insul. -- Rhodus Ins.] -- Map 139. Persici vel Sophorum Regni typus -- Map 140. Tartaria / Jodocus Hondius -- Map 141. China -- Map 142. India Orientalis -- Map 143. Insulæ Indiæ Orientalis præcipuæ: In quibus Moluccæ celeberrimæ sunt -- Map 144. Iaponia -- Map 145. Ins. Ceilan quæ incolis Tenarisin dicitur -- Map 146. America / Jodocus Hondius excudit Amsterodami -- Map 147. Hispaniæ Novæ nova descriptio -- Map 148. Virginiæ item et Floridæ Americæ Provinciarum, nova descriptio -- Map 149. Insula Iamaica -- Map 150. Ins. S. Ioannis
- Map 151. I. S. Margareta cum confiniis -- Map 152. Cuba Insula [inset map: Havana] -- Map 153. Hispaniola Insula -- Map 154. America Meridionalis [inset map: Cusco metropolis Peru] -- Map 155. Exquisita & magno aliquot mensium periculo lustrata et iam retecta Freti Magellanici Facies
Description
| Alternative title | Iam tandem ad finem perductus, quamplurimis aeneis tabulis Hispaniae, Africae, Asiae et Americae auctus ac illustratus a Iudoco Hondio. Quibus etiam additae (praeter Mercatoris) dilucidae et accuratae omnium tabularum descriptiones nouae, studio et opera Pet. Montani |
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| Alternative title | Gerardi Mercatoris atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra |
| Alternative title | Mercatoris Atlas 1609 |
| Type of resource | cartographic |
| Form | electronic; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 atlas ([4] pages, [3] leaves, 358 pages, [20] leaves, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates) : 155 maps, including 143 double (engravings) ; 48 cm (fol.) |
| Place | Netherlands |
| Place | Amsterodami [Amsterdam] |
| Publisher | Sumptibus et typis aeneis Iudoci Hondij |
| Publication date | 1609; 1609 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Edition | Editio secunda qua et ampliores descriptiones et nouae tabulae geographicae accesserunt. |
| Language | Latin |
| Map data | Scales differ ; W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--S 90°). |
Creators/Contributors
| Cartographer | Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594 | |
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| Cartographer | Mercator, Rumold, approximately 1545-1599 | |
| Cartographer | Llwyd, Humphrey, 1527-1568 | |
| Cartographer | Fayen, Antoine Jean du, approximately 1530-approximately 1616 | |
| Cartographer | Bompar, Pierre | |
| Cartographer | La Guillotière, François de | |
| Cartographer | Lubin, Eilhard, 1565-1621 | |
| Engraver | Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612 | |
| Engraver | Mercator, Gerard, approximately 1565-1656 | |
| Engraver | Mercator, Michael, -1600 | |
| Engraver | Keere, Pieter van den, 1571-approximately 1646 | |
| Engraver | Doetichum, Baptista van, -1611 | |
| Printer | Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612 | |
| Publisher | Mercator, Johannes, approximately 1562-1595 |
Subjects
| Subject | World maps > Early works to 1800 |
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| Subject | Portraits > Early works to 1800 |
| Subject | Europe > Pictorial works > Maps > Early works to 1800 |
| Subject | Africa > Pictorial works > Maps > Early works to 1800 |
| Subject | Asia > Pictorial works > Maps > Early works to 1800 |
| Subject | America > Discovery and exploration > Maps > Early works to 1800 |
| Genre | Atlas |
| Genre | Cartographic image-cri |
Bibliographic information
| Note | Hondius acquired Marcator's plates in 1604, added to them and re-issued the atlas in 1606, followed by many subsequent editions, including in different languages, until 1666. This is the first French edition; text translated from the Latin edition of 1607. Includes one new map: (96) Rügen. |
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| Note | Relief shown pictorially. |
| Note | Latitudinal and longitudinal lines along margins. |
| Note | Title translation: Atlas, or, cosmogaphic meditations on the fabric of the world and the figures of the fabric. |
| Note | Vellum binding. |
| Note | First 4 and last 4 pages blank (included in page description). |
| Note | Engraved title page and head and tail-pieces throughout. |
| Note | Indexes: Indice des tables de cest oeuvre, ou des descriptions d'icelles; Index sur la table generale d'Angleterre, d'Escosse & d'Irlande; Index en la table de Norvvege et Svece; Index en la table Vniverselle de la Gaule; Index des lieux de la table generale de la Germanie Inferieure; Index des lieux de la table generale de Germanie; Index des lieux de la table generale d'Italie; Indice.; Indice des tables d'Italie et de Grece. |
| Note | Section titles: Galliae tabule geographicae per Gerardum Mercatorem illustrissimi Ducis Iulie Cliuie Montis et cosmographum ...; Belgii in Ferioris geographicae tabule ...; Germaniae tabule geographicae ...; Italiae, Sclavoniae, et Graeciae tabule geographice ... |
| Note | Introductory text. |
| Note | Descriptive texts on versos of maps. |
| Note | Decorative cartouches, compass roses, rhumb lines. |
| Note | Maps show topography, vegetation, waterways, ports. |
| Note | Multiple maps on certain plates (e.g. Maps 25, 26, 27 and 28 together). |
| Note | Map 1 shows world, including: Terra Australis; Circulus Antarcticus; Polus Arcticus; Polus Antarcticus. |
| Note | Map 7 (round) shows the North Pole. |
| Language | Atlas title and map titles in Latin; text in French. |
| Local note | This copy has hand-written spine title; pencil inscriptions inside front cover: 43; Reserved till end July; 750; and on page [1]: 21. |
| Local note | Stamp: Admiralty Library. |
| Local note | Page 296 misprinted as 297; 314 is blank and unnumbered. |
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| Location | electronic resource |
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