Mercator: North Germany
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Title: „Emden & Oldenborch comit. per Gerhardum Mercatorum.“

Detailed and decorative map depicting West-and East Frisia with the Islands of Frisia and parts of Lower Saxony, at the upper left a title cartouche.

Cartographer:  Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594), with signature: „per Gerhardum Mercatorum cum privilegio“

Publisher: J. Hondius, „Atlas sive Cosmographica…“, Amsterdam 1606, verso - text in Latin.

Print size: 33, 8 cm x 42 cm

Beautiful copper engraving with vibrant original colouring and wide margins.
Lit.: Koeman II, Mer 15

€ 455,-