Hand-boeck, of Cort begrijp der caerten ende beschryvinghen van alle landen des werelds.
Description
- Related Names
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Pigafetta, Filippo, 1533-1604.
Wright, Benjamin.
Keere, Pieter van den, 1571-approximately 1646.
Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612.
Viverius, Jacobus, 1571 or 2-1646.
Langenes, Barent.
- Language(s)
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Dutch
- Published
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t'Amstelredam : By Cornelis Claesz. ..., 1609.
- Edition
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Van nieuvvs oversien ende vermeerdert.
- Note
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Includes index.
Signatures: (??)⁸ A-3B⁸.
Number 606-607 repeated in paging; other pages misnumbered.
Engraved t.p. vignette depicting geographers seated at a table. Woodcut tail-piece at end.
Includes some views in addition to maps: Magellan's ship Victoria, p. [16] of preliminaries, repeated on p. 21. View of the Escorial, p. 89. Roman ruins at 't Huys te Britten, p. 239. A shipwreck in the Bassas da India, p. 669. Cerro de Potosí, p. 743.
A number of maps are signed by their engravers: Jodocus Hondius, P. Kaerius, Benjamin Wright. Map of the Congo by Philippus Pigafetta, p. 673.
The text is that of the Dutch eds. published in 1598 and 1599 under the title Caert-thresoor. Possibly written by its first printer, Barent Langenes, it has been thoroughly revised by Jacobus Viverius for the present ed. See Koeman.
Dedication signed: Iacobus Viverius.
- Physical Description
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[16], 761 [i.e. 763], [5] p. (the last blank) :
ill., maps ;
14 x 21 cm.
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