Septentrionalium terrarum descriptio


Septentrionalium terrarum descriptio

Item Information

Title:
Septentrionalium terrarum descriptio
Title (alt.):
Polus Arcticus ac terrarum circumjacentium descriptio
Contributor:
Hondius, Hendrik, 1597-1651
Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Name on Item:
per Gerardum Mercatorem
Date:
[1630]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
Phillips Academy
Collection (local):
Sidney R. Knafel Map Collection at Phillips Academy, Andover MA
Subjects:
Arctic regions--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Arctic (area)
Extent:
1 map : hand colored ; 34 cm. in diam., on sheet 43 x 54 cm.
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Publisher:
[Amsterodami] : [Henrici Hondij
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:20,000,000]
Language:
Latin
Notes:
Relief shown pictorially.
Insets: Frislant insula, Farre insule, Scetland insula.
Text on verso in Latin, titled Polus Arcticus ac terrarum circumjacentium descriptio, p. 41-42.
Printer's signature: N.
From the 1630 Mercator-Hondius Atlas.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Burden, P. Mapping of North America, 88
Koeman-Krogt. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, 0020:1A
Ginsberg, William. Printed maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic 1482-1601, 33
Identifier:
1433