Tierra del Fuego by Mercator / Cloppenburgh

966 PLN

Above the map in the middle: FRETUM MAGELLANICUM.
Above the map, on the right side, pagination: 745.

Verso: latin text

Map of the Magellan Strait and the Tierra del Fuego a 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:
18,8 x 25,7 cm.
Condition: in some places map area seems to be little rubbed off.

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