COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Janssonius van Waesberge, Johannes
Author:
Swardt, Dirk Cornelisz
Author:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Author:
Cloppenburg, Johannes, 1592-1652
Date:
1636
Short Title:
Guineae nova descriptio
Publisher:
Apud Joannem Janssonium
Publisher Location:
Amstelodami
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
19
Obj Width cm:
26
Scale 1:
15,000,000
Note:
Copper engraved map of West Africa, . Shows towns, villages, landmarks, mountains, and rivers. Relief shown pictorially.
Country:
New Guiana
Full Title:
Gvineae nova descriptio. Dirck Cornelissen Swardt fecit. (to accompany) Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. De novo multis in locis emendatus novisque tabulis auctus. Amsterodami, apud Iohannem Ianssonium van Waesberge. Anno, 1673. ( inset) I. S. Thomae.
List No:
11487.173
Page No:
169
Series No:
173
Publication Author:
Janssonius van Waesberge, Johannes
Publication Author:
Swardt, Dirk Cornelisz
Publication Author:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Publication Author:
Cloppenburg, Johannes, 1592-1652
Pub Date:
1673
Pub Title:
Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. De novo multis in locis emendatus novisque tabulis auctus. Amsterodami, apud Iohannem Ianssonium van Waesberge. Anno, 1673.
Pub Note:
First reworked edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor issued by the Janssonius heirs (Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge) in 1673, without text or printed index. With engraved architectural and emblematic title page, and 183 copperplate engraved maps. Printed from the plates of the Cloppenburg editions of the Atlas Minor (1630, 1632, 1636), with a new map of the United Provinces and additional decorative elements to some maps, along with some updates to the maps. This edition of Mercator's 'Atlas'... was a changed format edition. Its newly engraved maps fell in between the folio maps in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas and the Atlas Minor. The Cloppenburg edition seems to have been suppressed after 1636. It was continued with this copy after 1673 by the Janssonius heirs. Because the maps are all take from the Cloppenburg plates of the 1636 edition, these maps are dated 1636, while the atlas is dated (Pub Date) as 1673. The maps include decorative cartouches, latitudinal and longitudinal lines, coats of arms, compass rose, and show political boundaries, cities, towns, topography, vegetation, waterways and landmarks. Relief shown pictorially.
Pub List No:
11487.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
183
Pub Height cm:
24
Pub Width cm:
33
Image No:
11487173.jp2
Authors:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594; Cloppenburg, Johannes, 1592-1652; Janssonius van Waesberge, Johannes; Swardt, Dirk Cornelisz
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Guineae nova descriptio
