MERCATOR, GERARD. Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricata Figura. Dusseldorf: Bernardus Busius, 1602. Folio, contemporary calf, covers with blind-stamped central oval lozenge within blind roll-tooled borders, edges stained green, head and tail of spine and corners restored, covers rubbed, scratched and wormed, upper inner hinge cracking slightly, offsetting, severe in places, map of Boulongne with outer border shaved and 1/2 inch tear, a few short marginal tears, one or two marginal repairs, occasional light marginal dampstaining and some marginal soiling, the maps on guards . Five parts in one volume, engraved allegorical title, engraved portrait of Mercator on verso of dedication leaf, five engraved divisional titles, and 108 engraved maps with title cartouches on 106 mapsheets and one half-sheet, including Rumold Mercator's twin-hemisphere world map in Koeman's state IV (Shirley 157), ALL THE ENGRAVINGS FULLY COLORED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. Koeman IV Me 14. The collation agrees with Koeman with the following minor exceptions: the indices to the maps of France, Germany, and Italy are bound in before instead of after the maps, and the two Lotharingia maps are bound in inverted order. Second edition of the first atlas to be so named. "Contrary to the maps in Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum ...Mercator's maps are original...Mercator, with his sense of scientific work (which should be original and new) checked the current knowledge of the configuration of the earth's topography and drew new maps...." Provenance : Late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century German inscription on verso of front flyleaf; nineteenth-century hand-colored engraved royal arms of the Hapsburgs pasted down on verso of title.
MERCATOR, GERARD. Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricata Figura. Dusseldorf: Bernardus Busius, 1602. Folio, contemporary calf, covers with blind-stamped central oval lozenge within blind roll-tooled borders, edges stained green, head and tail of spine and corners restored, covers rubbed, scratched and wormed, upper inner hinge cracking slightly, offsetting, severe in places, map of Boulongne with outer border shaved and 1/2 inch tear, a few short marginal tears, one or two marginal repairs, occasional light marginal dampstaining and some marginal soiling, the maps on guards . Five parts in one volume, engraved allegorical title, engraved portrait of Mercator on verso of dedication leaf, five engraved divisional titles, and 108 engraved maps with title cartouches on 106 mapsheets and one half-sheet, including Rumold Mercator's twin-hemisphere world map in Koeman's state IV (Shirley 157), ALL THE ENGRAVINGS FULLY COLORED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. Koeman IV Me 14. The collation agrees with Koeman with the following minor exceptions: the indices to the maps of France, Germany, and Italy are bound in before instead of after the maps, and the two Lotharingia maps are bound in inverted order. Second edition of the first atlas to be so named. "Contrary to the maps in Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum ...Mercator's maps are original...Mercator, with his sense of scientific work (which should be original and new) checked the current knowledge of the configuration of the earth's topography and drew new maps...." Provenance : Late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century German inscription on verso of front flyleaf; nineteenth-century hand-colored engraved royal arms of the Hapsburgs pasted down on verso of title.
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