Map Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra. Atlas / Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra / Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura
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Title
- Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra.
Other Title
- Atlas
- Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra
- Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura
Names
- Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594.
- Mercator, Rumold, approximately 1545-1599.
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- [Dvisbvrgi Clivorvm [1595]
Headings
- - Geography--Early works to 1800
- - Germany--Duisburg
- - Germany--Düsseldorf
Genre
- World atlases
- Early maps
Notes
- - The first part, originally published in 1585, is composed of three fascicles, each with a special t. p.: Galliæ tabulę geographicæ ; Belgii Inferioris geographicæ tabulę ; Germaniae tabulę geographicæ. The second part, originally published in 1589, has special t. p.: Italiae, Sclavoniæ, et Graeciæ tabulę geographicę.
- - The third part, under whose title the work is published, precedes the first and second parts. Left unfinished by the author, it was completed, and the whole work edited and published by his son, Rumold Mercator, in 1595.
- - Relief shown pictorially.
- - Includes indexes.
- - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 730
- - List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 3400, 5918
- - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- - LC copy bound in contemporary brown calf binding stamped in blind, with one border and some vignettes in gilt. The letters T. D. N. G. M. S. appear in gilt on front cover, and the date in gilt, on the back of the book.
- - LC copy from the library of F.E. Lauber, with his bookplate.
- - LAC knj 2019-07-02 update (2 cards)
Medium
- 3 pts. in 1 v. port., 107 col. maps (part fold.) 45 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- G1007 .A7 1595
- G1007 .A7 1595 Copy 2. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congess, 5918. Lacking the 30 pages of text "De mvndi creatione ac fabrica liber" and the title pages for the parts Belgii inferioris, Germaniae, and Italiae. The title "Atlantis pars altera" was separately printed and pasted over the title page for Mercator's 1578 edition of Ptolemy's Geographia.
- G1007 .A7 1595 Copy 3. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congess, 3400. Incomplete edition including 25 maps.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- map55000728
OCLC Number
- 17315657
Online Format
- image