Mercator’s Miniature Map of Germany Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 31 cm with Luanda and the neighbouring

with Luanda and the neighbouring Portuguese fort

Both worked from Elizabethan and Jacobean surveys by Saxton

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

German and of course Latin

Engraved armorial bookplate to verso of title

Mercator’s Miniature Map of Germany Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 31 cm with Luanda and the neighbouringThis 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.