COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Author:
Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612
Author:
Saltonstall, Wye
Date:
1637
Short Title:
The North Pole
Publisher:
T. Cotes for Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright
Publisher Location:
London
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
15
Obj Width cm:
20
Scale 1:
45,000,000
Note:
Copper-engraving, uncolored map map of the Arctic region. The North Pole is shown as a rocky island surrounded by 'indrawing seas' between four huge islands, and inset maps of the Faeroes, the Shetlands and the mythical Frisland in the corners. Relief shown pictorially.
Reference:
Phillips, 451; Phillips, 2455; Thacher, II, p. 31 (Americana)
World Area:
Arctic
Region:
Arctic Regions
Full Title:
The North Pole. Polus arcticus : cum vicinis regionibus. (insets) Farre insule. (with) Scetland insulae. (with) Frislant insula. (to accompany) Historia mundi : or Mercator's atlas. London Printed for Michaell Sparke, and are to be sowld in Greene Arboiure, 1637. Second edytion.
List No:
11248.066
Page No:
29
Series No:
66
Engraver or Printer:
Sparke, Michael
Engraver or Printer:
Goulart, James
Publication Author:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Publication Author:
Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612
Publication Author:
Saltonstall, Wye
Pub Date:
1637
Pub Title:
Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas : Containing his cosmographicall description of the fabricke and figure of the world. Lately rectified in divers places, as also beautified and enlarged with new mappes and tables; by the studious industry of Iudocus Hondy. Englished by W.S. generosus, & Coll. Regin. Oxoniae. London Printed for Michaell Sparke, and are to be sowld in Greene Arboiure, 1637. Second edytion.
Pub Reference:
Phillips, 451; Phillips, 2455; Thacher, II, p. 31 (Americana)
Pub Note:
Second edition in English, translated from the Mercator Hondius 1607 Atlas Minor (see our copy 11201.000) by Wye Saltonstall. With engraved decorative title page dated 1637 that is filled with allegorical female figures, geographers measuring the globe within an architectural surrounding, and additional title page from the first edition, dated 1635, with the imprint: Printed by T. Cotes for Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright. The atlas is in 1032 pages, includes frontispiece "Englished by W.S.," dedications signed by Wye Saltonstall. Also includes preface, notes, 26 pages of tables, index, illustrations, diagrams, portrait, 930 pages of text and 184 maps. In full leather binding with raised spine. Maps with decorative cartouches, showing the boundaries, territories, topographical features, cities and towns, landmarks, rivers, forests, some maps with illustrations of sea monsters and sailing ships. Relief shown pictorially. Numerous errors in pagination. P. 905 bears a map of New Spain, a duplicate of that on p. 907, description of New Spaine read New Virginia, but there is no Map of Virginia. There is map of Virginia and Florida, which covers the area south of Chesapeake Bay, used first in the "Atlas Minor" of 1607. The map of Egypt: 'At Page 818. the single Map of Aegypt is to be pasted on the Page. Second printing in English, with a duplicate map of New Spain in place of the later issued map of Virginia by Ralph Hall: "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 Booke shall have it given him gratis" (see errata on verso of final leaf). "Wye Saltonstall intended in his first edition of the "Historia Mundi" a map of Virginia. In acquiring the Mercator-Hondius copperplates used first in the "Atlas Minor" of 1607, he only possessed one of Virginia and Florida, which covers the area south of Chesapeake Bay. Since that time the Jamestown colony had become important, and a map would be needed to illustrate it… [Hall's] map was included in future editions of the "Historia Mundi" in 1637 and 1639" (Burden 244). Without the ninth state of the rare map of New England by John Smith found in some copies. This edition, with the first edition printed title page and the second edition decorative title, is a mixed edition and does not yet include the later added Hall map of Virginia.
Pub List No:
11248.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
184
Pub Height cm:
30
Pub Width cm:
20
Image No:
11248066.jp2
Authors:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594; Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612; Saltonstall, Wye
