- 3171
Horn, Georg.
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Description
- A full and exact description of the earth, or, Ancient geography, both sacred and profane: exhibiting to view all the empires, kingdoms, principalities and common-wealths that have been from the beginning of the world unto this present time. By Georg Hornius... and now faithfully rendered into English. Amsterdam: Printed for John and Gillis Janssons à Waesberge, [1700]
folio (535 x 340mm.), [4], 36pp., title-page printed in red and black, illustration: 64 double-page or folding engraved maps by or after Janssonius, Ortelius, Blankaert or Laurenberg (62 of the 63 as called for in the index, plus 2 additional maps, see footnote), binding: contemporary rough calf, lacking engraved title, printed title repaired with loss of last line of imprint, lacking first map (map of the winds), some light browning and soiling, upper cover detached, binding worn
Literature
Van der Krogt 1:611
Catalogue Note
The atlas includes Janssonius's large seven-sheet map of Palestine after Adrichom, as well as the Tabula Peutingeriana route map of the Roman Empire.
The two additional maps in this volume are:
Whiston, Professor W. Cellarius', Reland's and Maundrell's Maps of Palestine Corrected and Improvd by Mr. Whiston. [1700] (Laor 849)
[Whiston, Professor W.] Mr Whiston's Description of the Modes of the Tabernacle of Moses and of Solomon... [1700].