Japan by Mercator / Cloppenburgh
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IAPONIA | Petrus Kaerius Caelvit
Above the map in the middle: Japonia sive Japan Insula.
Above the map, on the right side, pagination: 711
Verso: latin text
Map of Japan and Korea ( as an island ! ) 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:18,1 x 24,5 cm.
Condition: in some places map area seems to be little rubbed off
Reference: Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, 1969, V.II., pos. Me 200.