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WORLD AND POLAR REGIONS - World
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio - Mercator, 1595.
Copper engraving
Size: 29 x 52cm (11 x 20 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Old coloured, slightly stained.
References: Shirley, 157; Van der Krogt 1, 0001:1A; Karrow, 56/17.10.
From: Atlas sive Cormographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura, Mercator's heirs, 1595.
Without the cracks. ("By 1603 cracks had developed in the top edge of the plate and by the 1620s these had extended in two places almost completely across the top box containing the title." (Shirley)). Early edition with text below.
Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first appeared in Isaac Casaubon's edition of Strabo's Geographia published in Geneva in 1587 with columns of text beneath the map. Later Rumold's map was incorporated into editions of Mercator's long-lived and influential Atlas from 1595 onwards.
Item number: 21303
Price: 8000 Euro
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