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Lot 127

MERCATOR (GERARD) and JODOCUS HONDIUS
Historia mundi, or, Mercator's Atlas. Containing his Cosmographical Description of the Fabricke and Figure of the World], [Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright, 1635]

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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[MERCATOR (GERARD) and JODOCUS HONDIUS

Historia mundi, or, Mercator's Atlas. Containing his Cosmographical Description of the Fabricke and Figure of the World], 182 engraved maps by Hondius, R. Hall, Pieter van den Keere, and J. van Loon, including a duplicate of New Spain, and an additional map of Virginia loosely inserted, but lacking folding map of New England, lacks 12 leaves including engraved title and all before A2, 13 maps trimmed, contemporary calf, worn with loss to spine ends [STC 17826; Koeman 11 p.549; cf. Phillips, Atlases 451 and 4255], folio (278 x 185mm.), [Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright, 1635]

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THE RARE FIRST PRINTING IN ENGLISH, the first issue with a duplicate map of New Spain (4H3 recto). Loosely inserted is a copy of the rare Ralph Hall map of Virginia which was not included at the time of publication, the errata stating: "There is no map for Virginia in regard there is a more exact map drawing in that country, whose platforme is not yet come over, but when it comes, every buyer of the book shall have it given him gratis".

Provenance: James Oliphant, manuscript bookplate dated 30 August 1740.

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