Specvlvum orbis terrarvm

Description

Title: Specvlvum orbis terrarvm
Alternative Title: Speculum orbis terrarum
Creator: Jode, Gerard de, 1509-1591, cartographer
Published / Created: [1578]
Publication Place: Antwerp and Belgium Antwerp
Publisher: Venundantur Antverpiae in platea vulgò dicta, de Catelyne Vesten, ad intersigne Floreni aurati, in aedibus Gerardi de Iode, typis Gerardi Smits
Description: BEIN 1976 Folio 2: Imperfect: wormed, with no loss of text; holes in map "Universi orbis seu terreni globi ..." Misbound: gatherings x-y bound after gathering z. No. 148 in H. C. Taylor coll.
With dedication on verso of title page, dated 1578.
Imprint from colophon.
Ninety maps on 65 sheets; text on verso of maps.
Part 2 has title: Speculum geographicum totius Germaniae Imperium repraesentans.
Foliation: 2 unnumbered bifolia, XXVII bifolia, 1 bifolium, XXXVIII bifolia, 1 unnumbered bifolium.
Signatures: pi² 2pi² a-c² [superscript chi]c² d-s² v-z² [superscript chi]Z² 2a-2c² [2d]², [superscript chi]A² A-2P² [2Q]² (2Q2 blank; signatures [superscript chi]A and A are signed 'A2').
Extent: 1 atlas (280 pages in various pagings) : 42 cm (folio)
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Scale: Scales vary.
Language: Latin

Access: Public
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