Original Hand Coloured Engraved Map “Cornubia, Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria,” Wiltonia, Gloucestria, Monumetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Penbrok, Cardigan, Tadnor, Breknoke, Herefordia, and Wigornia. “The Fifth Map of England.” by MERCATOR, GERARD:

London: Printed by T.Cotes, for Michael Sparkes and Samuel Cartwright, [1635].. Original engraved map of Argau / Switzerland (map dimensions 19.2 x 14 cm, overall dimensions 29.5 x 18.5 cm) with later hand-colouring. Covering the area around the Lake Lucerne, Lake Zurich and Lake Thun. With English text to verso. A bit tanned and with a few small nicks to margins, generally very good. From "Historia Mundi or Mercator's Atlas ..."

New York: Walker & Company [0-8027-1377-7] 2004. (Hardcover) 291pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. "The story of discovery and mapmaking is one of pushing back shadows, and no one in the last two thousand years achieved as much as Gerard Mercator in extending the boundaries of the known world. His life spanned most of the turbulent, extraordinary sixteenth century". Biography of Gerard Mercator. Time Period 16th Century. (Travel, Cartographers, Cartography, Geography, Mapmaking, Navigation, Travel).

London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2004. Pp. xii+292(last blank), pictorial double title page, text illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; green boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly foxed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves slightly foxed; HarperCollinsPublishers, London, 2004. First edition..

Antwerpen, Stad 1994. 175 p. Paperback

Europe: Amsterdam, Johannis Cloppenburgji. 1632. Copper engraved map of Languedoc, France. from" Gerardi Mercatoris, Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica mundi et fabricati figura, "Latin text to verso. Fair impression, slightly weak in places; light damp stain to upper margin. The "Atlas Minor" of Gerhard Mercator appears in various formats, the first published by Jodicus Hondius in 1607 with plates he most likely engraved himself. Thereafter there appeared a number of editions. In 1628 Johannes Janssonius published a new series of editions, the plates engraved by Petrus Kaerius and Abraham Goos. Both of these were small format atlases in the tradition of that published by Langenes. In 1630 Johannes Cloppenburg published a French edition in a somewhat larger size, followed by this Latin edition in 1632. The plates were in the main engraved by Petrus Kaerius. Cloppenburg published the Altas at his own expense "sumptibus"as the imprint states. There was one more edition in 1636… Read More

Europe: Amsterdam, Johannis Cloppenburgji. 1632. Copper engraved map of Boulogne, France, from" Gerardi Mercatoris, Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica mundi et fabricati figura, "Latin text to verso. Dark impression; damp stain to upper margin. The "Atlas Minor" of Gerhard Mercator appears in various formats, the first published by Jodicus Hondius in 1607 with plates he most likely engraved himself. Thereafter there appeared a number of editions. In 1628 Johannes Janssonius published a new series of editions, the plates engraved by Petrus Kaerius and Abraham Goos. Both of these were small format atlases in the tradition of that published by Langenes. In 1630 Johannes Cloppenburg published a French edition in a somewhat larger size, followed by this Latin edition in 1632. The plates were in the main engraved by Petrus Kaerius. Cloppenburg published the Altas at his own expense "sumptibus"as the imprint states. There was one more edition in 1636 with French text. Due to thier… Read More

Europe: Amsterdam, Johannis Cloppenburgji. 1632. Copper engraved map of Picardy & Champagne regions of France, from" Gerardi Mercatoris, Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica mundi et fabricati figura, "Latin text to verso. Dark impression; damp stain to upper margin. The "Atlas Minor" of Gerhard Mercator appears in various formats, the first published by Jodicus Hondius in 1607 with plates he most likely engraved himself. Thereafter there appeared a number of editions. In 1628 Johannes Janssonius published a new series of editions, the plates engraved by Petrus Kaerius and Abraham Goos. Both of these were small format atlases in the tradition of that published by Langenes. In 1630 Johannes Cloppenburg published a French edition in a somewhat larger size, followed by this Latin edition in 1632. The plates were in the main engraved by Petrus Kaerius. Cloppenburg published the Altas at his own expense "sumptibus"as the imprint states. There was one more edition in 1636 with French… Read More

Europe: Amsterdam, Johannis Cloppenburgji. 1632. Copper engraved map of Champagne, France, from" Gerardi Mercatoris, Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica mundi et fabricati figura, "Latin text to verso. Dark impression; light damp stain to upper margin. Heading "Campania. " just entering plate mark. The "Atlas Minor" of Gerhard Mercator appears in various formats, the first published by Jodicus Hondius in 1607 with plates he most likely engraved himself. Thereafter there appeared a number of editions. In 1628 Johannes Janssonius published a new series of editions, the plates engraved by Petrus Kaerius and Abraham Goos. Both of these were small format atlases in the tradition of that published by Langenes. In 1630 Johannes Cloppenburg published a French edition in a somewhat larger size, followed by this Latin edition in 1632. The plates were in the main engraved by Petrus Kaerius. Cloppenburg published the Altas at his own expense "sumptibus"as the imprint states. There was one… Read More

Europe: Amsterdam, Johannis Cloppenburgji. 1632. Copper engraved map of Perche in Northern France, home of the famous Percheron draft horses, from" Gerardi Mercatoris, Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica mundi et fabricati figura, "Latin text to verso. Dark impression; damp stain to upper margin. The "Atlas Minor" of Gerhard Mercator appears in various formats, the first published by Jodicus Hondius in 1607 with plates he most likely engraved himself. Thereafter there appeared a number of editions. In 1628 Johannes Janssonius published a new series of editions, the plates engraved by Petrus Kaerius and Abraham Goos. Both of these were small format atlases in the tradition of that published by Langenes. In 1630 Johannes Cloppenburg published a French edition in a somewhat larger size, followed by this Latin edition in 1632. The plates were in the main engraved by Petrus Kaerius. Cloppenburg published the Altas at his own expense "sumptibus"as the imprint states. There was one… Read More

Europe: Amsterdam, Johannis Cloppenburgji. 1632. Copper engraved map of Touraine, France. from" Gerardi Mercatoris, Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica mundi et fabricati figura, "Latin text to verso. Generally good impression, slightly weaker in the lower third; damp stain to upper margin; crease to lower right corner. The "Atlas Minor" of Gerhard Mercator appears in various formats, the first published by Jodicus Hondius in 1607 with plates he most likely engraved himself. Thereafter there appeared a number of editions. In 1628 Johannes Janssonius published a new series of editions, the plates engraved by Petrus Kaerius and Abraham Goos. Both of these were small format atlases in the tradition of that published by Langenes. In 1630 Johannes Cloppenburg published a French edition in a somewhat larger size, followed by this Latin edition in 1632. The plates were in the main engraved by Petrus Kaerius. Cloppenburg published the Altas at his own expense "sumptibus"as the imprint… Read More