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Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio [map] : 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
Scale [ca. 1:50,000,000]. (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.
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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Getty AAT genre
World maps
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1587
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Related work(s)
Strabo.
Geography.
Latin & Greek.
1587.
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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
International Standard Recording Code
HM 2013-40
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