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Creator:
Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662
Title(s):

Cosmographie, in four books : 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, bays, 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 ...

Additional Title(s):

Microcosmus

Published/Created:
London : Printed for Philip Chetwind, 1666.
Physical Description:
[14], 1098, [4], 1089-1095, [40] p., [8] folded leaves of plates : 4 maps ; 35 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
G114 H49 1666+ Oversize
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Added engraved t.p. reads: Cosmographie, in foure books ... The 3d. edition, corrected & inlarged by the author. London : Printed for Philip Chetwind, in Aldersgate street over against New Street, 1670.
Books 1-3 have special t.p.s dated 1665; part 1 of book 4 dated 1662, part 2 not dated; Appendix dated 1667.
Maps are printed on double leaves.
Head- and tail-pieces.
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), H1691A
Subject Terms:
Chetwind, Philip -- Publisher.
Geography -- Early works to 1800.
Isted, Thomas -- Bookplate.
Sotheby, Charles William Hamilton, 1820-1887 -- Bookplate.
World history.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1666.
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