Mundus alter et idem siue Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus peregrini academici nuperrime lustrata auth: Mercurio Britannico.

Mundus alter et idem

Francofurti [i.e. London] : [printed by Humphrey Lownes, sold] apud haeredes Ascanij de Rinialme, [1605?]

[16], 224 p., [5] folded plates : ill., maps ; (8vo)

Mercurius Britannicus = Joseph Hall. Sometimes attributed to Alberico Gentili.
Editor's preface signed: Guilielmus Knight.
The title page is engraved and signed "Wilhelmus kip sculpsit." State 1: the front of the pedestal framing the imprint is vertical. State 2: shading is diagonal.
Printer's name supplied and publication date conjectured by STC.
This edition has catchwords on all rectos; maps have page numbers. Copies occur with one or more leaves from the Hanau edition (catchwords on versos only, plates have no page numbers); these should be matched to STC 12685.3.
Signatures: [par.]⁸ A-O⁸.
See PBSA 74 (1980), p. 1-12 for further discussion.

Signatures from DFo.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 12685
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S103729

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 12685

4.0.46. T.p. state 1; t.p. faded. Provenance: bookplate of Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester (motto 'nec cupias nec metuas') [i.e. Yorke family library copy]