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| Title | Atlas minor : das ist, ein kurtze jedoch grundliche Beschreibung der gantzen Welt und aller ihrer Theyl / Erstlich von Gerardo Mercatore in Latein beschrieben ; folgends durch Iodocum Hondium mit vielen Kupffern gebessert und vermehrt ; und endlich in unsere hoch teutsche Sprache versetze
Title page missing. Title from N.U.C. pre-56 (Mansell) |
| Detail Depicted | Illustrations--Intaglio-Engravings--Copper (Page 31) |
| Creator/Author | [Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594]
[Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612] |
| Publisher | [ex officina Ioannis Ianssonii] |
| Place of Publication | [Amsterodami [Netherlands--Amsterdam]] |
| Date of Publication | [1631] |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Atlases -- Early works to 1800
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| Genre Heading | Early printed books--1601-1700 (17th century)
Atlases (Geographic)
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| Bibliographic Elements | [8], 600, [16] p. : maps ; 19 x 24 cm. (oblong 4to) |
| Printing Method | Letterpress on handmade laid paper |
| Printer | [ex officina Ioannis Ianssonii] |
| Image Production Process | Intaglio--Engravings--Copper
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| Illustrator | Pieter de Keere, according to catalog description tipped onto back endsheet [Keere, Pieter van den, ca. 1571-ca. 1624] |
| Binding | Bound in contemporary vellum. Sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced at the spine.
Headbands sewn on vellum thongs.
All edges trimmed.
Lacks front free endsheet. |
| General Notes | Signatures: ***[superscript 4] (- ***1) A[superscript 4] (-A2) B-4H[superscript 4] [$3 (-A3, B1, B3, C1, C3, D1, I3, K3, L3, M3, 2H3) signed; missigning 3C2 as 2C2, 3D2 as 2D2]; 310 leaves, pp. [6] 1-2 5-320 329-336 321-328 337-600 [16] [misnumbering 272 as 172, 349 as 347, 517 as 516].
Gathering 2T4 is misarranged, coming before 2S4 in the binding.
Letterpress print appears on the verso of engravings. Engravings printed prior to letterpress: see page 445 and 551.
Includes index and register.
Gothic letter.
Illustration shows a map of England, Scotland and Ireland. |
| Language | German |
| Digital Collection | Historical Book Arts Collection |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Special Collections |
| Call Number | SpecColl Rare Books G1007.A75 1631 |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned in RGB color using an Olympus C-2000 Zoom digital camera and saved in.jpg format and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2003 |
| Content | Over 100 maps, with descriptive text in German. The American maps include Orbis Terrarum, Nova Virginia, several of the West India islands, and Fretum Magellani.
Mercator was a Flemish cartographer whose most important innovation was a map, embodying what was later known as the Mercator projection, on which parallels and meridians are rendered as straight lines spaced so as to produce at any point an accurate ratio of latitude to longitude. He also introduced the term atlas for a collection of maps. |
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