Detail View: JCB Map Collection: [Map of the world]
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Accession Number:
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06107
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File Name:
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06107-002
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Call number:
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D607 H177m
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Map title:
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[Map of the world]
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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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23.5 cm.
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Map size width:
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28 cm.
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Item description:
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fold-out map, engraved; following p. 112
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Geographical description:
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Map of the world emphasizing a vast, fictitious southern continent. Cartographic elements include some rivers and some topographical detail.
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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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Geographic Area:
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World
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Historical notes:
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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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