Bizkaia Bilbo Pamplona Valladolid Burgos Spain Mercator Map Card 1651

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Amsterdam, Janssonius 1651.

Sheet dimensions: approx. 17.5 x 23 cm -- Original copperplate map by Gerard Mercator. With German text on the back. From the German edition of the "Atlas Minor" from 1651. - well preserved. || Rare original copper engraved map by Gerard Mercator. With German text on verso. From the German edition of the "Atas Minor" from the year 1651. -- in very good condition. || The Flemish engraver and cartographer Jodocus Hondius (15631612), bought Mercator's plates after his death, and published this reduced version of Mercator's folio Atlas sive Cosmographis, and added some 36 of his own maps - a pocket version - Atlas Minor - which Hondius published together with his partners Cornelius Claesz and Johannes Janssonius. It became a great success, and was translated into several languages ​​and issued in c. 40 editions.

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Amsterdam, Janssonius 1651. Sheet dimensions: approx. 17.5 x 23 cm -- Original copperplate map by Gerard Mercator. With German text on the back. From the German edition of the "Atlas Minor" from 1651. - well preserved. || Rare original copper engraved map by Gerard Mercator. With German text on verso. From the German edition of the "Atas Minor" from the year 1651. -- in very good condition. || The Flemish engraver and cartographer Jodocus Hondius (15631612), bought Mercator's plates after his death, and published this reduced version of Mercator's folio Atlas sive Cosmographis, and added some 36 of his own maps - a pocket version - Atlas Minor - which Hondius published together with his partners Cornelius Claesz and Johannes Janssonius. It became a great success, and was translated into
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