Mechlinia Mechelen Antwerp Belgium Mercator Map Card 1651

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Amsterdam, Janssonius 1651.

Rare map which appears only in two editions of the Atlas Minor. 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" of 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 (1563-1612), 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. 40 editions.

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Amsterdam, Janssonius 1651. Rare map which appears only in two editions of the Atlas Minor. 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" of 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 (1563-1612), 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 Jansso
Zeitraum Vor 1800
Originalität Unikat Handgefertigt Original
Drucktyp Handgefertigt