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MERCATOR, Gerhard(1512 Rupelmonde - 1594 Duisburg)
2 maps: Greece | Peloponnese
2 copperplate engravings on laid paper.
Each in a mount: max 50 x 60 cm.
Historical maps of the Greek region of Peloponnese, title cartouche "Morea Olim Peloponnese", typographic text in Latin on verso, printing plate: 33.5 x 41 cm, sheet: 45 x 55 cm, centerfold, sheet grip-marked, marginal area with small back-taped | Historical map of northern Greece, title cartouche "Macedonia, Epirus et Achaia", verso typographic text in Latin, printing plate: 35.5 x 43 cm, sheet: 46 x 56 cm, back-taped centerfold, sheet grip-marked; from the famous Mercator-Hondius Atlas, from 1606.
Flemish map and globe maker, cosmographer, theologian and philosopher. His masterpiece is the world map of 1569, which showed for the first time the representation of the Earth in a projection true to the angle.
Limit 20 €
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Hammer price 40.00 €
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