Scotiae tabula III.
Hondius, Jodocus,1563-1612.
Cotes, Thomas,-1641.
Sparke, Michael,-1653.
Cartwright, Samuel,-1650.
[London : Thomas Cotes for Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright,
1635]
Relief shown pictorially.
Shows rivers, lochs (shaded), settlements (with and without churches), place names.
Scale statement reads: "Miliaria Scotica com.", with scale bar graded [0]-25.
Borders filled in with graduations of latitude and longitude.
The four cardinal points are written in the border.
Decoration: ornate title/scale cartouche (top left corner); ship; sea monster; sea detail (wave forms); shaded coasts (outwards); some names in flourished script.
At bottom of page "H 4".
This map is a reduction of the larger maps by Mercator, 1595. It was first issued in the 1607 edition of the Atlas Minor published in Amsterdam and later editions up to 1621. Also appears as illustration in "Purchas his pilgrimes" by William Stanley, 1625.
This map was issued in an English edition of the Atlas Minor published in London in 1635 with title "Historia Mundi, or, Mercator's Atlas".
Imprint derived from atlas in which it appears.
Map measurements and scale from Moir's description.
Moir, D.G., Early maps of Scotland to 1850, 3rd. ed.,
Skelton, R.A. "County atlases of the British Isles 1579-1850",
Shows northernn Scotland as far south as Montrose on the east and the Ardnamurchan peninsula on the west including the Orkneys and most of the Hebrides islands.
Held at National Library of Scotland
Historia Mundi, or, Mercator's Atlas. p. 79.