Mikrókosmos : a little description of the great world : augmented and reuised / by Peter Heylyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.

Contributor:

Lichfield, John, active 1605-1635, printer.

Turner, William, -1643, printer.

Huggins, Thomas, active 1609-1636, bookseller.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Microcosmus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geography--Early works to 1800.

Geography.

Penn Provenance:

Knowlton (label)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 380, 391-812 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates ; 19 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Little description of the great world

Fingerprint:

i-me e.38 ofa- ciof (3) 1625 (A)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Printed by Iohn Lichfield and William Turner, and are to be sold by W. Turner and T. Huggins, An. Dom. 1625.

Notes:

First word of title in Greek characters.

Signatures: [par.]⁸ A-3D⁸ 3E².

The leaf of plates is a table.

Woodcut title vignette (device of the University of Oxford), initials and head-pieces.

Type ornament head-piece.

Printed marginalia.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf 3E2 wanting; plate wanting.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. notes (in more than one hand?) in brown ink in text.

Penn Libraries copy has mark of censorship on page Hh1r and effaced passage added later in ms.

Penn Libraries copy has small printed label ("KNOWLTON") affixed to front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full 20th-century calf; 5 raised bands on spine; all edges red-brown.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves [par.]2-5 detached from spine; leaves [par.]1 (title leaf) and [par.]2 mended at inner margin; ink blot on leaf 2N8r with minor effacement of text; leaves cropped at fore-edge margin with occasional damage to ms. marginalia.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.), 13277

Madan I, p. 123-124

ESTC S104038

OCLC:

228713424