Portrait of Gerard Mercator, engraved by Franz Hogenberg. 1595
Gerard Mercator is holding a globe, with America, Peru and the magnetic pole charted and a compass. Encircled with a Latin verse by Joannes Vivianus and a title below in a cartouche.
Gerardi Mercatoris Rupelmundani effigiem annor. duorum et sex-aginta...
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Portrait of Gerard Mercator, engraved by Franz Hogenberg.
Date of the first edition: c. 1574-76
Date of this map: 1595
Copper engraving
Size: 19.5 x 15cm (7.6 x 5.7 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Contemporary old coloured.
Condition Rating: A
References: TNH Hogenberg D8.
From: Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura. Gerardo Mercatore Rupelmundano ... Dusseldorpii Excudebat Ambertus Busius Iliiustrissimi Ducis Iuliae, Cliviae, Montis, &c. Typographus, Sumptibus haeredum Gerardi Mercatoris Rupelmundani, Anno 1595. (Van der Krogt 1, 1:011) First edition of Mercator's world atlas.
Gerard Mercator is holding a globe, with America, Peru and the magnetic pole charted and a compass. Encircled with a Latin verse by Joannes Vivianus and a title below in a cartouche.
Gerard Mercator is holding a globe, with America, Peru and the magnetic pole charted and a compass. Encircled with a Latin verse by Joannes Vivianus and a title below in a cartouche.