Gerhard Mercator, Historia Mundi; or Mercator's Atlas (1635)

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Date
1635
Author
Translator
Wye Saltonstall Note: 13/10/2005
Lexicon title
The Technologicall and Geographicall Words mentioned in this Worke, defined and explained
Book title
Historia Mundi Or Mercator's Atlas. Containing his Cosmographicall Descriptions of the Fabricke and Figure of the World
Printer
Thomas Cotes
Publisher
Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
geography
Language
headwords: English
Extent
Oooo2r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 18
sample: A Promontory is a part of Land lying out farther than the rest, and is contrary to a Bay, the uttermost end is called a Cape. (nnnn6r)
Schafer
1635 S
STC
17824, -24.5
Catalog
Ortroy, F[ernand] van. Bibliographie de l'oeuvre mercatorienne. Amsterdam: n.p., 1978. view record
Other editions
1637: STC 17825;
1638: STC 17826
Sources
  • Mercator, Gerardus. Atlas sive cosmographicæ meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. (Atlantis pars altera Geographia nova totius mundi. 3 vols. Dusseldorpii: A. Busius, 1595. view record