Scotia regnum. /
Mercator, Gerhard,1512-1594.
Hondius, Jodocus,1563-1612.
[Amsterdam : J. Hondius,
1609].
Relief showm pictorially.
Text on verso in French with heading L'Escosse, decorated letter L, beginning p.57 "La plus Septentrionale partie de l'Isle..." and p.58 "pert non feuilement par les escrits...".
Bottom right corner: "Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum Priuilegio".
Map was first published in Mercator's "Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura" printed in Duisberg in 1595.
The verso text, pagination and binders mark show this map was issued in the 1609 in Jodocus Hondius's "Gerardi Mercatoris l'Atlas ou meditations cosmographiques de la fabrique du monde et figure d'Icelvy".
Imprint derived from the atlas in which the map was issued.
Fine contemporary hand colouring.
Shows latitude and longitude from Ferro meridian.
Dotted sea.
On verso: pages numbered 57, 58.
Binders mark: S.
Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici
EMS
Scotland with Hebrides and Orkney.
From the Marischal collection, held at National Library of Scotland.
Research Libraries Support Programme : Charting the Nation record.