Shelfmark
Gg.6.01(01)
Author
Title
Mundus alter et idem siue Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus peregrini academici nuperrime lustrata auth: Mercurio Britannico.
Varying form of title
Mvndvs alter et idem siue Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus peregrini academici nuperrime lustrata
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus peregrini academici nuperrime lustrata
Publication, distribution, etc.
Francofurti [i.e. London] : [Printed by H. Lownes, sold] apud hæredes Ascanij de Rinialme, [1607?].
Physical description
[16], 224 p., [6] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Note
Mercurius Britannicus = Joseph Hall. Sometimes attributed to Alberico Gentili.
Note
Editor's preface signed: Guilielmus Knight.
Note
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.
Note
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.
Note
Printer's name supplied and publication date conjectured by STC.
Note
See PBSA 74 (1980), p. 1-12 for further discussion.
Note
Signatures: [par.]⁸ A-O⁸.
Note
Includes index.
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 12685.3
Citation/references note
ESTC, S103674
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate recording gift to Eton College by Edward Waddington in 1731.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
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.
Copy-specific note
Curatorial note on r. of the original front flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy bound with De optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, 1555.
Subject
Satire, English Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Gentili, Alberico, 1552 - 1608 attributed name.
Added entry--name
Kip, William engraver.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Lownes, Humphrey, ? - -1629 printer.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--name
Heirs of Ascanius de Renialme bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B49434