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Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio ex ea, guam ex magna Universali Mercatoris Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat, in hanc commodiore forma a Hyeronymo Porro redacta. F.P. [cartographic material]

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[1598]

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Local class no.: A/10000/[1598] (2 copies) See/Voir: G1005 1598 fol. vault

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A/10000/[1598] (2 copies) See/Voir: G1005 1598 fol. vault

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Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio ex ea, guam ex magna Universali Mercatoris Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat, in hanc commodiore forma a Hyeronymo Porro redacta. F.P.
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[1598]

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Canada

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1 map : Print ; 15.3 x 24.0.

Language of material:

English
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Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604

Ptolemaeus, Claudius

Mercator, Rumold, 1541-1600
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Illus: The map is surrounded by geometric-like ornaments including a small armillary sphere and a compass-rose.
In: Ptolemy: Geographia, Venice, Fratelli, 1598. The world is represented by two circular hemispheres (east and west) and has Latin text in the bottom margin (a total of 4 lines in two columns) while its back is blank. Canada has very sparse information. In its present form the map was reduced and edited by G. Porro from the 1587 map of Rumold Mercator which "is nothing but a very much reduced copy of Mercator's [Gerard] map of 1569 on a different projection" (Wagner, II. p. 288, no. * 146). For editions of the 1587 map see K., Me 12. Vol. II. p. 291. According to Phillips, it appeared also in the following Ptolemy editions: Venice 1596 (Ph., Vol. I. pp. 152-4), Cologne 1597 (Ph., Vol. I. pp. 154-5), Venice 1599 (Ph., Vol. I. pp. 158-9) Cologne 1608 (Ph., Vol. V. pp. 104-4), Arnhem 1617 (Ph., Vol. I. pp. 179-80), Padova 1621 (Ph., Vol. I. pp. 184-5).
Wagner, Henry R.: The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the year 1800. Berkeley, California 1937. Phillips, P. L.: A List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress. Washington, 1909. Koeman, Ir. C.: Atlantes Neerlandici Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Amsterdam 1967-1971. Nondenskeold ref. 226.

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This map was originally part of the atlas "Geografia cioè descrittione vniversale della terra partita un due volume". We have this map and also the complete atlas described at the series level in Mikan no. 4730743 (barcode 2000708983).

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