The Scarce English Edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas in Original Colour
The Scarce English Edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas in Original Colour
By MERCATOR, Gerard, 1636
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Atlas or A Geographicke description of the Regions. Counties and Kingdoms of the world through Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, represented by New & Exact Maps. Translated by Henry Hexham, Quarter-master to the Regiment of Colonell Goring.Description
Author: MERCATOR, Gerard
Publication place: Amsterdam
Publisher: Henry Hondius and John Iohnson
Publication date: Anno 1636 — 1638.
Physical description: Two volumes, folio (515 by 330mm), engraved title-pages, with letterpress overslips over both titles and the imprint of volume one, and double-page engraved portrait of Mercator and Hondius, with contemporary hand-colour in full and heightened with silver, 196 double-page engraved maps in fine contemporary outline hand-colour, contemporary Oxford mauve morocco, with gilt panels and floral corner-pieces and central arabesque, spines decorated with gilt lozenges in ten compartments with nine raised bands, all edges gilt, original marbled pastedowns.
Inventory reference: 15140