Bacon's Mercator World Map Printed Area Measurement_44.5 x 53 cm

Bacon's Mercator World Map Printed Area Measurement_44.5 x 53 cmBacons Map of the World on Mercators Projection Condition & Materials Lithographed folding map, sheet size 48 x 66 cm. Original hand colour, a couple of trivial splits at the fold intersections. Folds into green publishers cloth covers, advertisement to pastedown.

The books were disposed of by the library about 40 years ago and acquired en bloc by an academic

a 9th century Patriarch of Constantinople

multo auctiores & emendatiores

the oldest lighthouse in France

The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high-minded aim of making 'useful' information available to self-taught members of the working and lower middle classes (and possibly to steer them away from anything politically controversial or less improving…)

Maps in the Atlases of the British Library

This is map of the Yugorsky Strait in the Arctic Sea

with key in lower margin

Philip’s Castle

Cochin (two brothers

then a fishing village)

price stamped on front cover