Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio [map] : quam ex magna universali Gerardi Mercatoris domino Richardo Gartho, geographi[a]e ac c[a]eterarum bonarum artium amatori ac fautori summo, in veteris amiciti[a]e ac familiaritatis memoria[m] / Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat ...

Author
Mercator, Rumold, approximately 1545-1599 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
[Geneva : Rumold Mercator], Ao. M.D.LXXXVII [1587]
Description
  • Scale [ca. 1:50,000,000]. (W 180°00ʹ00ʺ--E 180°00ʹ00ʺ/N 90°00ʹ00ʺ--S 90°00ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map : hand col., 2 hemispheres each 26 cm. in diam. ; on sheet 29 x 52 cm.

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Subject(s)
Printer
Getty AAT genre
Notes
  • Relief shown pictorially.
  • French text on verso.
  • From: ... Strabonis rerum geographicarum libri XVII / Isaacus Casaubonus recensuit ... [Genevae] : Excudebat Eustathius Vignon ... , 1587.
Source acquisition
Historic Maps copy 2 is gift of Holly and Henry Wendt, Princeton Class of 1955.
References
  • Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world 157
  • Wendt, H. Envisioning the world 20
OCLC
60356912
International Standard Recording Code
  • HM 2013-40
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