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Record Nr.

UNISA996385326803316

Autore

Heylyn Peter <1600-1662.>

Titolo

Cosmographie, in four books [[electronic resource] ] : containing the chorographie and historie of the whole world, and all the principal kingdoms, provinces, seas, and isles thereof / / by Peter Heylyn ; with an accurate and an approved index of all the kingdoms, provinces, countries, inhabitants, people, cities, mountains, rivers, seas, islands, forts, bayes, capes, forests, &c. of any remarque in the whole world, much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last impression, revised and corrected by the author himself immediately before his death

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Anne Seile, 1666

Edizione

[[The 3d edition]]

Descrizione fisica

[12], 998, [2], 999-1088, [2], 1089-1095, [40] p. : 4 fold. maps

Soggetti

Geography

World history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Advertisement: prelim. p. [4].

"An alphabetical and exact table" [i.e. indices]: p. [2]-[40] at end.

Added illustrated t.p., engraved: Cosmographie ... The 3d ed. cor. & inlarged by the author. London, Printed for Anne Seile, 1666.

Books 1-3, the two parts of book 4 and the Appendix have each a special t.p., dated 1665.

Enlarged from the author's Microcosmus, first published at Oxford, 1621.

The 4th edition (cf. Sabin) being the 3d ed. with a new t.p. and "an alphabetical and exact table [etc.]" added to it.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113