Scotiae pars septentrionalis.
Hondius, Hendrik,1573-
Mercator, Gerhard,1512-1594.
[Amsterdam : chez Henry Hondius,
1641]
Relief shown pictorially.
Text on verso in French with heading "La partie septentrionale de l'Ecosse", with foliate letter L, beginning "La Taichie est suyvie par les monts Ocelles ...".
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.
The text, pagination, binders mark and woodcut initials show this map was issued in a 1641 issue of the "Nouveau theatre du Monde..." by Hendrik Hondius.
Imprint derived from the atlas in which the map was issued.
Binders mark: N.
Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici
EMS
Northern Scotland, with Hebrides and Orkney.