Catalonia, Cloppenburgh / Mercator

1127 PLN

CATALONIA | Petrus Kaerius Caelvit

Above the map in the middle: CATALONIA SPECIALIUS.

Above the map, on the right side, pagination: 183.

In the lower left corner engraver's signature: Petrus Kaerius caelvit.

Verso: latin text

Map of Catalonia from an uncommon, slightly larger, newly engraved(usually by P. van der Keere - latinized name Kaerius) edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor titled Atlas sive Cosmogrpahicae Medidaitiones de Fabrica mundi... , published in Amsterdam by Johaness Cloppenburgh, in 1632(just one and only latin edition)

Original copperplate engraving, recently handcoloured, map size:18,3 x 25 cm.

Condition: in some places map area seems to be little rubbed off(esp. the right side), small folds.

Reference: Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, 1969, V.II., pos. Me 200.