Scotiae pars septentrionalis.
Hondius, Hendrik,1573-
Mercator, Gerhard,1512-1594.
Santen, Dirck Jansz van,1637 or 1638-1708.
[Amsterdam : Hondius?
ca 1660].
Scale statement reads "Milliaria Scotica" 30 = 58 mm.
Relief shown pictorially.
Features include border to map, major settlements and some lettering in gold leaf ; trees ; some settlements in red ; regions outline in colour ; ships ; sea monster.
Coloured by Dirck Jansz. van Santen.
Shows latitude and longitude from Ferro meridian.
Map was first published with title Scotiae Regnum in Mercator's "Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura" printed in Duisberg in 1595 ; after the 1636 English edition its title was re-engraved in this form, with baroque style cartouche, with sea engraving largely removed, and Mercator's name deleted.
Unlike other editions of this map, there is no text on verso perhaps implying it was issued as a single map, rather than as part of an atlas.
Faint traces of sea engraving show it to be a later printing from the same plate as the map issued in the French edition of "Nouveau theatre du Monde..." by Hendrik Hondius in 1639.
RSGS and Moir "The Early Maps of Scotland"
Northern Scotland, with Hebrides and Orkney.