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Map of the World
"Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio
/ Quam ex Magna Universali Gerardi Mercatoris
Domino Richardo Gartho, Geographic ac ceterarum
bonarum artium amatori ac fautori summo, in
veteris amicitic ac familiaritatis memoria Rumoldus
Mercator fieri curabat A°. M. D. LXXXVII".
Rare first edition from the Mercator-Atlas
published in 1595, with Latin text below.
€ 5.900,-
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World in two hemispheres, surrounded by a
strapwork border. With an armillary sphere and
an elaborate compass rose between the two hemispheres.
Compiled by Rumold Mercator after Gerhard Mercator's
world map of 1569. First published in an edition
of Strabo's 'Geographia', Geneva 1587, and in
an Mercator-Atlas, Duisburg 1595.
Coloured copper engraving by Gerhard and
Rumold Mercator, published by Rumold Mercator,
Duisburg 1595, 36 x 52,3 cm.
Very good impression, nice and skilfully
worked out colouring. Left and right margins
and lower left and right corners
replaced - partly affecting the map or the text, in the
middle of the text a part of it is missing,
otherwise good condition.
Ref.: Shirley 157; Koeman Vol. II, M 12
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