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Mundus alter et idem siue Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus peregrini academici nuperrime lustrata auth: Mercurio Britannico.
Mvndvs alter et idem siue Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus peregrini academici nuperrime lustrata
Portion of title: Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus peregrini academici nuperrime lustrata
Francofurti [i.e. London] : [Printed by H. Lownes, sold] apud hæredes Ascanij de Rinialme, [1607?].
[16], 224 p., [6] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Mercurius Britannicus = Joseph Hall. Sometimes attributed to Alberico Gentili.
Editor's preface signed: Guilielmus Knight.
This state includes all copies containing a mixture of leaves from the Frankfurt edition (STC 12685) and the edition with imprint "Hannoviæ per Gulielmum Antoniu[m] a⁰ 1607.". The former have catchwords on all rectos and plates have page numbers; the latter have catchwords on versos only and plates have no page numbers. Copies having all Hanau leaves except for the Frankfurt title page are also part of this state. Copies containing Hanau leaves only are not within the scope of STC.
The title page is engraved and signed "Wilhelmus kip sculpsit." State 1: the front of the pedestal framing the imprint is vertical. State 2: shading is diagonal.
Printer's name supplied and publication date conjectured by STC.
See PBSA 74 (1980), p. 1-12 for further discussion.
Signatures: [par.]⁸ A-O⁸.
Includes index.
STC (2nd ed.), 12685.3
ESTC, S103674
Engraved armorial bookplate recording gift to Eton College by Edward Waddington in 1731.
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
18th century sprinkled calf with blind tooled roll boder on board edge; sprinkled textblock edges; rebacked spine with gilt embellishments and 18th century red and gilt morocco spine label.
Curatorial note on r. of the original front flyleaf.
ECL copy bound with De optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, 1555.
Satire, English Early works to 1800.
Gentili, Alberico, 1552 - 1608 attributed name.
Kip, William engraver.
Lownes, Humphrey, ? - -1629 printer.
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Heirs of Ascanius de Renialme bookseller.
England London.
B49434