MERCATOR, Gerard (1512-1594) and Jodocus HONDIUS (1563-1611). Atlas minor . Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius and Jan Jansson [1607]. Oblong 4 o (163 x 222 mm). Engraved title, 4 preliminary leaves (the table of maps misbound at end), engraved allegorical plate, 149 (of 152) engraved maps, all with letterpress headline titles, printed on rectos with text on versos; woodcut initials. Four Italian maps partly colored in outline. A second impression of map 58 (Lyonnois Forest et Beaujolais) misprinted on Ii4 in place of map 54 (Lotaringia septentrionale), map 54 misprinted on Kk2 in place of map 55 (Lotaringia meridiona), a correct impression of map 55 supplied on an inserted leaf facing Ii4. Woodcut initials. 3 blank leaves bound in after preliminaries, two leaves with manuscript notes bound in in place of 2 of the missing maps at end, 2-leaf manuscript table at end. (Lacking maps 149, Designatio orbis Christianis , 151, Romani Imperii imago , and 152, Alexandri Magni expeditio , and at least one text leaf at end, the table of maps [misbound] with gutter repaired, title backed, very small tear to allegorical plate, lower border of several maps shaved, touching degree bar of 5 maps, map 146 [Topographia Paradisi] stained and frayed, a very few small marginal tears.) 17th- or 18th-century English reverse calf, blind panelled. Provenance : Nicholas Pottinger (inscriptions dated 1642 on front free endpaper, neat 3-page manuscript index of place names at end, apparently in the same hand); MF (initials on front free endpaper); Philip Griffin, Warnford, Hampshire (18th or early 19th-century inscription on front flyleaf, manuscript numbering to maps, interleaved notes possibly in same hand); Lionel H. Pries (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, RARE, of the Hondius-Mercator pocket atlas. Copies often show signs of rushed printing, with inserts or pasted-down leaves correcting impressions of the wrong copperplates. In this copy the maps of Morea (122) and Egypt (125) are correctly printed (unlike the copy described by Koeman), but map 58 was printed in duplicate, and map 54 printed on the wrong page (see above). Koeman II Me 186.
MERCATOR, Gerard (1512-1594) and Jodocus HONDIUS (1563-1611). Atlas minor . Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius and Jan Jansson [1607]. Oblong 4 o (163 x 222 mm). Engraved title, 4 preliminary leaves (the table of maps misbound at end), engraved allegorical plate, 149 (of 152) engraved maps, all with letterpress headline titles, printed on rectos with text on versos; woodcut initials. Four Italian maps partly colored in outline. A second impression of map 58 (Lyonnois Forest et Beaujolais) misprinted on Ii4 in place of map 54 (Lotaringia septentrionale), map 54 misprinted on Kk2 in place of map 55 (Lotaringia meridiona), a correct impression of map 55 supplied on an inserted leaf facing Ii4. Woodcut initials. 3 blank leaves bound in after preliminaries, two leaves with manuscript notes bound in in place of 2 of the missing maps at end, 2-leaf manuscript table at end. (Lacking maps 149, Designatio orbis Christianis , 151, Romani Imperii imago , and 152, Alexandri Magni expeditio , and at least one text leaf at end, the table of maps [misbound] with gutter repaired, title backed, very small tear to allegorical plate, lower border of several maps shaved, touching degree bar of 5 maps, map 146 [Topographia Paradisi] stained and frayed, a very few small marginal tears.) 17th- or 18th-century English reverse calf, blind panelled. Provenance : Nicholas Pottinger (inscriptions dated 1642 on front free endpaper, neat 3-page manuscript index of place names at end, apparently in the same hand); MF (initials on front free endpaper); Philip Griffin, Warnford, Hampshire (18th or early 19th-century inscription on front flyleaf, manuscript numbering to maps, interleaved notes possibly in same hand); Lionel H. Pries (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, RARE, of the Hondius-Mercator pocket atlas. Copies often show signs of rushed printing, with inserts or pasted-down leaves correcting impressions of the wrong copperplates. In this copy the maps of Morea (122) and Egypt (125) are correctly printed (unlike the copy described by Koeman), but map 58 was printed in duplicate, and map 54 printed on the wrong page (see above). Koeman II Me 186.
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