West Morlandia, Lancastria, Cestria, Caernarvan, Denbigh, Flint, Meridionidh, Montgomery, Salpia, cum Insulis Mania et Anglesey ; Cornubia, Davonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monumetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Pembroke, Cardigan, Radnor
Item Information
- Title:
- West Morlandia, Lancastria, Cestria, Caernarvan, Denbigh, Flint, Meridionidh, Montgomery, Salpia, cum Insulis Mania et Anglesey ; Cornubia, Davonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monumetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Pembroke, Cardigan, Radnor
- Title (alt.):
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West Morlandia, Lancastria, Cestria, Caernarvan, Denbigh, Flint, Meridionidh, Montgomery, Salpia, cum Insulis Mania et Anglesey
Cornubia, Davonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monumetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Pembroke, 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.
- Publisher:
- Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612
- Cartographer:
- Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
- 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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Wales--Maps
West Midlands (England)--Maps
England, North West--Maps
West Country (England)--Maps
- Places:
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Wales
EnglandWest Midlands (county)
- Extent:
- 2 maps on 2 sheets : hand color ; 47 x 56 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 approximately 1:659,000
- Language:
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Latin
- Notes:
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Relief shown pictorially.
Appears in Mercator's Gerardi Mercatoris et I. Hondii Atlas. 1633.
- Notes (date):
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This date is inferred.
- Identifier:
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05_04_001000
- Call #:
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G5740 1633 .M47
- Barcode:
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39999052509716
39999052509658
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