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Transcription of Michael Sparke's Historia Mundi, 1635
Transcription from Historia Mundi or Mercator's Atlas, of the descriptive text for plates 2 and 3 which include Westmorland and Cumberland etc, translated from the Atlas or Atlas Minor of Gerard Mercator, published by Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright, London, 1635. The copy seen is in the Map Room of the National Library of Scotland, item EMW.b.2.40.
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