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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
06107
File Name:
06107-002
Call number:
D607 H177m
Map title:
[Map of the world]
Place of Publication:
London
Publisher:
Sumptibus hæredum Ascanij de Renialme, Hannouiæ per Gulielmum Antoniu[m] [i.e., H. Lownes]
Publication date:
1607
Map size height:
23.5 cm.
Map size width:
28 cm.
Item description:
fold-out map, engraved; following p. 112
Geographical description:
Map of the world emphasizing a vast, fictitious southern continent. Cartographic elements include some rivers and some topographical detail.
Source author:
Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656
Source title:
Mundus alter et idem siue Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus Peregrini Academici nuperrime lustrata auth. Mercurio Britannico
Source place:
[London]: Sumptibus hæredum Ascanij de Renialme, Hannouiæ per Gulielmum Antoniu[m] [i.e., H. Lownes], A[nno] 1607
Geographic Area:
World
Historical notes:
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.
Normalized date:
1607
LC bibliographic number:
b22213107

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