Detail View: JCB Map Collection: [Title page]
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Accession Number:
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06107
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File Name:
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06107-001
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Call number:
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D607 H177m
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Map title:
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[Title page]
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Place of Publication:
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London
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Publisher:
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Sumptibus hæredum Ascanij de Renialme, Hannouiæ per Gulielmum Antoniu[m] [i.e., H. Lownes]
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Publication date:
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1607
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Map size height:
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14.5 cm.
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Map size width:
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9 cm.
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Item description:
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title page
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Geographical description:
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Title page with with men, one a navigator holding a compass and a book, the other a cosmographer holding a globe and dividers. Also includes mythological figures with globes and dividers, as well as Mercury with a caduceus and winged helmet and sandals.
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Source author:
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Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656
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Source title:
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Mundus alter et idem siue Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus Peregrini Academici nuperrime lustrata auth. Mercurio Britannico
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Source place:
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[London]: Sumptibus hæredum Ascanij de Renialme, Hannouiæ per Gulielmum Antoniu[m] [i.e., H. Lownes], A[nno] 1607
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Historical notes:
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Mercury, or Hermes, was the god of commerce and industry. Joseph Hall, an English bishop and satirist, wrote Mundus alter as a satire on the follies of contemporary London and Europe, criticizing the Catholic church and its customs. His narrator, Mercurius Britannicus, discovers the southern continent divided into the human vices, but the known mapped world is clearly of importance to the satire.
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Normalized date:
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1607
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LC bibliographic number:
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b22213107
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