Atlas minor.

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Oblong 4to, (7 x 9 inches). Engraved allegorical title-page (top and bottom margins trimmed, affecting the platemark at the bottom), allegorical engraving, and 153 fine engraved maps with titles in cartouches, all paginated, and with letterpress headline titles, printed on rectos with Latin text on versos and letterpress text printed on versos, woodcut printer's device on verso of last leaf (folios 4Q1 and 4Q4 repaired affecting the borders of maps 148 and 151, wormholes to folio T3, a few other minor marginal repairs, some occasional mostly marginal staining). Contemporary vellum over paste-board, yapp edges (paste-downs renewed). Provenance: with the ownership inscription of George Frideric Leyfert dated 1706 on the verso of the title-page, and of his tutor(?) M. Fr. W. Noldius. K. F.G.V.C; place-names on many maps underlined in early red ink. First published in 1607, the Hondius-Mercator pocket atlas, was intended as a reduced version of Gerard Mercator's folio atlas "Atlas sive Cosmographia", 1606. This smaller atlas was a huge success for Hondius and his partners Cornelius Claesz and Johannes Janssonius, and editions were published not only in Latin, but also in French, Dutch, German and eventually in Russian, Turkish and English. Including a fine double-hemisphere world map "Typus Orbis Terrarum", "America", "Polus Arcticus", "Hispania Nova", "Virginia & Florida", "Cuba", "America Meridionalis", "Fretum Magellanicum", and "Designatio Orbis Christiani" relating to America. Koeman II Me 189A; Phillips 429. Catalogued by Kate Hunter. N° de ref. del artículo 72lib282

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