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UTOPIAN FICTION - IMAGINARY MAPS. HALL, JOSEPH (pseud. Mercurius Britannicus). Mundus alter et idem. Sive Terra Australis antehac semper incognita, longis itineribus peregrini academici nuperrimè lustrata. Accessit propter affi nitatem materiæ Thomae Campanelae, Civitas Solis. Et Nova Atlantis. Franc. Baconis. 2nd edition. Utrecht (Joannem à Waesberge) 1643.

12mo (120x68 mm). Engraved frontispiece title, (13, 1 blank), 213, (20, Index) pp. With 5 folding engraved maps by Pieter van den Keere, 1 engraved plate (complete, 1 map with minor tear). Title with woodcut printer´s device.
Contemporary brown marbled boards, manuscript title on spine, partly worn. With the signature of Olavus Andr. Knös, Upsal. 1777, his note "Libellus rarus", and a library stamp from old "Stockholms högskola" on inside of cover. Some underlinings, some foxing.

Shirley, Mapping of the World 251. This copy is without the works by Campanella and Bacon, of 106 and 96 pages.
Hall´s rare satirical account "Mundus alter et idem" (=The Other World yet the Same) of a journey to an imaginary Antarctic with 5 interesting maps. The author travels to the southern continent, Terra Australis in his ship Fantasia. It was first published in 1605.

Hall´s work is known to have been a source to von Schnebelin´s Erklärung der wunder-seltzamen Land-Charten Utopiae (1694), and may also have been an influence to Swift´s Gullivers Travels.

Joseph Hall (1574-1656), English bishop, satirist and moralist.

Probably Olof Knös (1756-1804), Swedish historian.

Auktionsnummer:

6247

Datum:

2017-06-20