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Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio : quam ex magna universali Gerardi Mercatoris domino Richardo Gartho, geographi[a]e ac c[a]eterarum bonarum artium amatori ac fautori summo, in veteris amiciti[a]e ac familiaritatis memoria[m] / Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat ...
Author
Mercator, Rumold, approximately 1545-1599
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Format
Map
Language
Latin
Published/Created
[Geneva] : [Rumold Mercator], Ao. M.D. LXXXVII [1587]
Description
(W 180°00ʹ00ʺ--E 180°00ʹ00ʺ/N 90°00ʹ00ʺ--S 90°00ʹ00ʺ).
1 map : hand col., 2 hemispheres each 26 cm. in diam. ; on sheet 29 x 52 cm.
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Notes
Special Collections - Rare Books Historic Map Collection
HMC01.6893 D Alcove 13, Drawer 13
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HMC01.3480 D Alcove 13, Drawer 13
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Details
Subject(s)
World maps
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Early works to 1800
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Early maps
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Related name
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
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Printer
Vignon, Eustache, 1530-1588
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Early maps
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World maps
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Getty AAT genre
world maps
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Related work(s)
Strabo.
Geography.
Latin & Greek.
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Notes
Relief shown pictorially.
French text on verso.
From: ... Strabonis rerum geographicarum libri XVII / Isaacus Casaubonus recensuit ... [Genevae] : Excudebat Eustathius Vignon ... , 1587.
Source acquisition
Historic Maps copy 2 is gift of Holly and Henry Wendt, Princeton Class of 1955.
References
Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world 157
Wendt, H. Envisioning the world 20
OCLC
60356912
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