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

Author
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
[Duisburgi Cliuorum : Sumptibus hæredum Gerardi Mercatoris Rupelmundani, 1595]
Description
  • Scale [ca. 1:3,600,000]. (E 26°38ʹ00ʺ--E 46°38ʹ00ʺ/N 55°00ʹ00ʺ--N 44°11ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map ; 30 x 39 cm.

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Special Collections - Rare Books Historic Map Collection HMC01.541 D Alcove 16, Drawer 10 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Summary note
    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.
    Notes
    • Relief shown pictorially.
    • "Cum priuilegio."
    • Latin text on verso with caption title: Taurica Chersonesus; signature XXIX.
    • From: Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Duisburgi Cliuorum : Sumptibus hæredum Gerardi Mercatoris Rupelmundani, 1595.
    Source acquisition
    Historic Maps copy is gift of Robert A. McCabe, Princeton class of 1956.
    References
    Koeman, C. Atlantes neerlandici (New ed.) 1890:1A.1
    OCLC
    875642268
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