MERCATOR, GERARD and JODOCUS HONDIUS. Atlas minor. Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius for Jan Janszoon [Colophon: Dordrecht: Adrianus Bottius 1610]. Oblong 4to, 176 x 225mm. (6 15/16 x 8 15/16 in.), publisher's gilt-blocked vellum, edges sprinkled red, worn, masking tape across spine, inner hinge broken, first 2 quires coming unsewn, engraved title slightly abraded and with marginal repair incurring slight loss to border, marginal worming to first 4 leaves, 2-inch tear to fol. F1 affecting 8 letters, two maps (Lithuania and Germania inferior) with tears just entering borders, about 14 leaves with marginal tears or repairs, light browning throughout, occasional minor marginal dampstaining. Engraved allegorical title, allegorical engraving, and 153 engraved maps with title cartouches, all with letterpress captions and pagination and text printed on versos, including Jodocus Hondius's twin-hemisphere world map and his planispheric map of the "Christian world" (Shirley 259 and 260), THE TITLE, ALLEGORICAL ENGRAVING AND MAPS FULLY COLORED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, THE TITLE HEIGHTENED IN GOLD, woodcut printer's device on verso of last leaf, Latin text, "Anglia "map printed upside down. Phillips 429; Koeman II, Me 189A: a variant, differing from Koeman's description as follows: without the inserted "Index Regionum" leaf; without the inserted map of Tierra del Fuego; Lotharingia and Lotharingia Meridional (Koeman's nos. 54 and 55) in inverted order, Lotharingia Meridional pasted down over another map; Koeman's maps 79 and 80 also in inverted order.Provenance: Early manuscript index on recto and verso of lower flyleaf; John Alfred Spranger, bookplate; bequeathed to the present owner, his daughter Elizabeth Graff.

MERCATOR, GERARD and JODOCUS HONDIUS. Atlas minor. Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius for Jan Janszoon [Colophon: Dordrecht: Adrianus Bottius 1610]. Oblong 4to, 176 x 225mm. (6 15/16 x 8 15/16 in.), publisher's gilt-blocked vellum, edges sprinkled red, worn, masking tape across spine, inner hinge broken, first 2 quires coming unsewn, engraved title slightly abraded and with marginal repair incurring slight loss to border, marginal worming to first 4 leaves, 2-inch tear to fol. F1 affecting 8 letters, two maps (Lithuania and Germania inferior) with tears just entering borders, about 14 leaves with marginal tears or repairs, light browning throughout, occasional minor marginal dampstaining. Engraved allegorical title, allegorical engraving, and 153 engraved maps with title cartouches, all with letterpress captions and pagination and text printed on versos, including Jodocus Hondius's twin-hemisphere world map and his planispheric map of the "Christian world" (Shirley 259 and 260), THE TITLE, ALLEGORICAL ENGRAVING AND MAPS FULLY COLORED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, THE TITLE HEIGHTENED IN GOLD, woodcut printer's device on verso of last leaf, Latin text, "Anglia "map printed upside down. Phillips 429; Koeman II, Me 189A: a variant, differing from Koeman's description as follows: without the inserted "Index Regionum" leaf; without the inserted map of Tierra del Fuego; Lotharingia and Lotharingia Meridional (Koeman's nos. 54 and 55) in inverted order, Lotharingia Meridional pasted down over another map; Koeman's maps 79 and 80 also in inverted order. Provenance: Early manuscript index on recto and verso of lower flyleaf; John Alfred Spranger, bookplate; bequeathed to the present owner, his daughter Elizabeth Graff.

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MERCATOR, GERARD and JODOCUS HONDIUS. Atlas minor. Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius for Jan Janszoon [Colophon: Dordrecht: Adrianus Bottius 1610]. Oblong 4to, 176 x 225mm. (6 15/16 x 8 15/16 in.), publisher's gilt-blocked vellum, edges sprinkled red, worn, masking tape across spine, inner hinge broken, first 2 quires coming unsewn, engraved title slightly abraded and with marginal repair incurring slight loss to border, marginal worming to first 4 leaves, 2-inch tear to fol. F1 affecting 8 letters, two maps (Lithuania and Germania inferior) with tears just entering borders, about 14 leaves with marginal tears or repairs, light browning throughout, occasional minor marginal dampstaining. Engraved allegorical title, allegorical engraving, and 153 engraved maps with title cartouches, all with letterpress captions and pagination and text printed on versos, including Jodocus Hondius's twin-hemisphere world map and his planispheric map of the "Christian world" (Shirley 259 and 260), THE TITLE, ALLEGORICAL ENGRAVING AND MAPS FULLY COLORED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, THE TITLE HEIGHTENED IN GOLD, woodcut printer's device on verso of last leaf, Latin text, "Anglia "map printed upside down. Phillips 429; Koeman II, Me 189A: a variant, differing from Koeman's description as follows: without the inserted "Index Regionum" leaf; without the inserted map of Tierra del Fuego; Lotharingia and Lotharingia Meridional (Koeman's nos. 54 and 55) in inverted order, Lotharingia Meridional pasted down over another map; Koeman's maps 79 and 80 also in inverted order.

Provenance: Early manuscript index on recto and verso of lower flyleaf; John Alfred Spranger, bookplate; bequeathed to the present owner, his daughter Elizabeth Graff.