MERCATOR (GERARD) and JODOCUS HONDIUS Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes
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MERCATOR (GERARD) and JODOCUS HONDIUS
Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes, 156 engraved maps, all but Boulogne double-page, includes one world and four continental maps, 4 engraved sectional titles, browned throughout, dampstaining affecting the corners of several maps, most significantly Livonia and some French provinces, lacking title and portrait (2 preliminary leaves before E defective), world map torn at fold with slight loss, Lake Geneva and Flanders shaved at margins, Poictou and Quercy pierced and torn on either side of fold, Great Britain browned, contemporary Dutch vellum, soiled [Koeman II Me 28A], folio, [Amsterdam, H. Hondius, 1628]
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