Original Old Map of South East England Incl London, Oxford, Cambridge, Etc, 1633
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Date
1633
Sheet size
41 × 54 cm (16.1 × 21.3 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-11937
Condition
German text on verso. Some expert restorations (strengthenings) along flattened middle fold. Slightly stained in upper margin. A few old manuscript names and underlining. Please review the images for further condition details.
About this sheet
Old map of south east England. Includes London, Salisbury, Oxford, Cambridge, Leicester and Norwich and the Isle of Wight. Originates from the 1633 German edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas Major, published by Henricus Hondius and Jan Jansson under the title: 'Atlas: das ist Abbildung der gantzen Welt, mit allen darin begriffenen Laendern und Provintzen: sonderlich von Teutschland, Franckreich, Niderland, Ost und West Indien: mit Beschreibung der selben.'
Artists and engravers: Gerard Mercator (1512 - 1594) originally a student of philosophy was one of the most renowned cosmographers and geographers of the 16th century, as well as an accomplished scientific instrument maker. He is most famous for introducing Mercators Projection, a system which allowed navigators to plot the same constant compass bearing on a flat map.
