Mercator’s Miniature Map of Germany Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 31 cm

Mercator’s Miniature Map of Germany Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 31 cmThis map shows the Germanic regions of Europe, including the Low Countries, Poland and Austria, and was engraved by Jodocus Hondius for the Atlas Minor. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 14. 6 x 19. 5 cm, black and white, numbered in an early hand in upper margin, light waterstaining in lower margin, Latin text on verso. References Koeman Me 186.

Both worked from Elizabethan and Jacobean surveys by Saxton

’ covering eastern Europe and the Ottoman world

although most of the European knowledge of the region in the first part of the 18th century was via Jesuit and Capuchin missionaries

mostly numbering for an accompanying schedule

German and of course Latin

with Luanda and the neighbouring Portuguese fort

Engraved armorial bookplate to verso of title

and shows the Royal Festival Hall (built for the 1951 Festival of Britain) and the Mermaid Theatre at Puddle Dock

Notes on the map amplify and explain some of the uncertainties

was governed by the Spanish between 1509 and 1708

A scroll in the top right of the map could be printed with the name of any sponsor: our example was issued by the transatlantic shipping company United States Lines

Map showing the Duchy of Mantua