Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio quam ex Magna Universali Gerardi Mercatoris Domino Richardo Gart...
Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio quam ex Magna Universali Gerardi Mercatoris Domino Richardo Gart...
Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio quam ex Magna Universali Gerardi Mercatoris Domino Richardo Gartho, geographiae ac caeterarum bonarum artium amatori ac fautori summo, in veteris amicitiae ac familiaritatis memoriam [cartographic material] / Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat A. MDLXXXVII.
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Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
[Duysburghi Clivorum : Typis Aeneis], 1587.
Date
1587.
Call Numbers
SAFE/M2 100a/1587/1
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MMS ID
Language
Latin
Formats
Physical Description
Cartographic data
Scale [ca. 1:90 000 000] Stereographic proj.
Physical content
1 map : hand col. ; 2 hemispheres 25.5 cm. in diam. each.
Publication information
Publisher
[Duysburghi Clivorum : Typis Aeneis], 1587.
Date Published
1587.
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Full title
Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio quam ex Magna Universali Gerardi Mercatoris Domino Richardo Gartho, geographiae ac caeterarum bonarum artium amatori ac fautori summo, in veteris amicitiae ac familiaritatis memoriam [cartographic material] / Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat A. MDLXXXVII.
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Notes
General note
Text on verso ("Orbis Terrae Typus Cum ex naturae ...") places this issue in the Mercator's Atlas, 1595 onwards. First appeared in Strabonis Rerum Geographicarum, Geneva 1587.
Shows Terra Australis with separate Iava mino and Nova Guinea. Also "Beach provincia aurifera"....
Additional physical form availability note
Online at the State Library of NSW.
Language note
Text in Latin.
Exhibitions
Exhibited : "Finding Antarctica" at the State Library of NSW, 2011 NSL
Time Period
d1587
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/M2 100a/1587/1
Record Identifier
74VvkrRmwLlg
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvkrRmwLlg
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MMS ID
991013906369702626
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