The divine cosmographer; or, A brief survey of the whole world : delineated in a tractate on the VIII Psalme: by W.H. sometime of S. Peters Colledge in Cambridge.

The divine cosmographer; or, A brief survey of the whole world : delineated in a tractate on the VIII Psalme: by W.H. sometime of S. Peters Colledge in Cambridge.

[Cambridge] : Printed by Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1640.

[12], 154 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; (12mo)

W.H. = William Hodson, whose name appears in full in the preliminary verses.

With an additional title page (plate), engraved and signed "W.M. sculpsit" (i.e. William Marshall), with imprint: Printed for Andrew Crooke [London]. 1640.

The first five preliminary leaves include the engraved title page and a conjugate explanation, two leaves of verses, and an imprimatur leaf. Copies lacking some or all of these may represent early states.

Signatures: A¹²(A1+pi⁴(-pi1)) B-F¹² G⁸.

Imprimatur on leaf pi2v: Octob. 3. 1639. Imprimatur Cantabrigiae per Rogerum Daniel. Ra. Brownrigg Procan. Samuel Ward. Tho. Bainbrigg. Jo. Cosin.

A variant (STC 13554.5) has Crooke's name on letterpress title page

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 13554
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S104119

Great Britain -- England -- Cambridge.

STC 13554

HH113/17. Label on spine with manuscript number '10238'. Following letter-press title page is a stub which is conjugate with second leaf of preliminary verses, i.e. pi1 cancelled or wanting?; cropped at fore-edge, affecting some side-notes. Provenance: inscriptions on front paste-down: 'Shrewsbury. Henry White. Close Lichfield February' [9, 1817]'; Britwell Court shelfmark, '3.A.29.'; Britwell sale, 31 January 1921:pt.2,262; collated by Max Privett at Quaritch, 10/2/21; Harmsworth copy