May 26, 2016 - Sale 2417

Sale 2417 - Lot 200

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MERCATOR, GERARD; and HONDIUS, JODOCUS. Historia mundi: or Mercator's Atlas. Containing his cosmographicall descriptions of the fabricke and figure of the world. Lately rectified in divers places, as also beautified and enlarged with new mappes and Tables; by the studious industrie of Iudocus Hondy. Englished by W.[ye] S.[altonstall]. [22], 56, 55-56, [2], [1]-400, 409-599, 520-564, 649-930, [30] pages; i.e., incomplete. Tall 4to, early calf, worn, covers detached; Bbb3 defective, preliminary and final leaves loose. See ESTC 17825. should be seen. sold as is. London: T. Cotes, for Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright, 1635 (but probably 1637)