Cornubia, Davonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monumetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Pembroke, Cardigan, Radnor, Breknoke, Herefordia, & Wigornia
Item Information
- Title:
- Cornubia, Davonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monumetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Pembroke, Cardigan, Radnor, Breknoke, Herefordia, & Wigornia
- Title (alt.):
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Cornvbia, Devonia, Somersetvs, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monvmetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Penbrok, Cardigan, Radnor, Breknoke, Herefordia & Wigornia
- Description:
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These two maps, portraying portions of Cornwall and Wales, were originally prepared by Gerard Mercator, one of the greatest of early Dutch map makers. These two atlas sheets were published in either the 1628 or 1633 French edition of Mercator and Jodocus Hondius’s Atlas. Originally published in 1595, this book of maps was the first such publication to use the term “atlas” to describe a collection of published maps. The use of this term is often associated with the Greek Titan, Atlas, who was condemned by Zeus to carry the heavens and earth on his shoulders for all time.
- Creator:
- Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
- Name on Item:
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per Gerardum Mercatorem.
- Date:
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[1633]
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center - Collection (local):
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Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
- Subjects:
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Cornwall (England : County)--Maps--Early works to 1800
West Country (England)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Wales--Maps--Early works to 1800
Great Britain--Maps--Early works to 1800
- Places:
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EnglandCornwall (county)
Wales
- Extent:
- 1 map : col. ; 58 x 47 cm.
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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Amsterdam :
J. Hondius
- Scale:
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Scale not given.
- Language:
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Latin
- Notes:
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Bottom/south sheet.
Relief shown pictorially.
Appears in Mercator's Atlas. Amsterdam. 1633.
Exhibited in “Faces and Places,” at the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, October 2003 - September 2004. MB (BRL)
- Notes (date):
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This date is inferred.
- Identifier:
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05_04_000032
- Call #:
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G5740 1633.1 .M47
- Barcode:
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39999052509716
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