Taurica Chersonesus [map] : nostra ætate Przecopsca et Gazara dicitur / per Gerardum Mercatorem.

Author
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
[Amsterodami : Sumptibus & typis aeneis Iudoci Hondij, 1619]
Description
  • Scale [ca. 1:3,700,000]. (E 28°00ʹ00ʺ--E 50°30ʹ00ʺ/N 55°30ʹ00ʺ--N 43°45ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map : hand col. ; 30 x 39 cm.

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Notes
  • Relief shown pictorially.
  • "Cum priuilegio."
  • Detailed map of Crimea and surrounding regions between the northern coast of the Black Sea and Moscow. Shows ports, fortified cities and the mouths of the Danube. Decorative cartouche. An early state, with the original Mercator cartouche.
  • French text on verso with caption title: La Presqu'isle ou Chersonese Pontique; p. 103-104; signature Rr.
  • From: Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Editio quarta. Amsterodami : Sumptibus & typis aeneis Iudoci Hondij, 1619.
Source acquisition
Historic Maps copy is gift of Robert A. McCabe, Princeton class of 1956.
References
Koeman, C. Atlantes neerlandidi (New ed.) 1890:1A.113
OCLC
875642184
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