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- 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
- Contributor Names
- Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594.
- Mercator, Rumold, approximately 1545-1599.
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Created / Published
- [Dvisbvrgi Clivorvm [1595]
- Subject 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.
- - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 730
- - Phillips 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
- Library of Congress Control Number
- map55000728
- OCLC Number
- 17315657
- Online Format
- image
- LCCN Permalink
- https://lccn.loc.gov/map55000728
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