Mercator-map of Poland & Silesia
2898 PLN
POLONIA ET SILESIA.
Below the cartouche signature: Per Gerardum Mercatorem | Cum priuilegio
Verso: German text, pagination 329 and 232(should be 332) , signature: Oooo
Map first appeared in 1585 in Gerard Mercator's Germaniae tabulae geographicae...Duisburg,1585, then alos in first edition of Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes...Duisburg,1595, published by his son Rumold (ca 1545-99).
This particular map comes from later, first German, edition of Der Atlas von Gerard Mercator un Iudocus Hondius ... , published by Mercator's succesors Johannes Janssonius and Jodocus Hondius, Amsterdam, 1633 .
Original copperplate engraving, map size 34,2 x 45,2 cm.
Good condition: wide margins, paper age-toned, little brown dots, visible centerfold
Bibliography :
Niewodniczański,T., Kozica K.,Imago Poloniae, Vol. II. pos. K75/1,
Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici,Vol.II.,1969r., pos. Me37