Scotia regnum. /
Mercator, Gerhard,1512-1594.
Hondius, Jodocus,1594 or 1595-1629.
[Amsterdam : J. Hondius,
1613].
Relief shown pictorially.
Text on verso in French with heading L'Escosse, decorated letter E, with cat design, beginning p.63 "Escosse est la plus Septentrionale..." and p.64 "Le peuple d'Escosse est parti en 3 ordres...".
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 1613 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.
Shows latitude and longitude from Ferro meridian.
Dotted sea.
On verso: pages numbered 63,64.
Binders mark: T.
Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici
EMS
Scotland with Hebrides and Orkney.
Held at National Library of Scotland.