Scotia regnum.
Cloppenburg, Johannes,1592-1652.
Keere, Pieter van den,approximately 1571-approximately 1624.
[Amsterdam : Cloppenburg,
1630].
Relief shown pictorially.
At top of page: L'Escosse.
Issued in the French edition of "Gerardi Mercatoris atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura..." published by Cloppenburg in 1630 ; the maps are copied from those in Jansson's folio "Atlas Major" and octavo "Atlas Minor" but at duodecimo size.
The atlas was issued in Latin in 1632 and again in French in 1636, then it was suppressed and the plates were not used again until 1673 and 1676  by Janson van Waesbergen, Jansson's heir.
Most of the maps in Cloppenburg's atlas were engraved by Pieter van den Keere.
Imprint and date derived from the atlas.
Page number top right: 55.
The map was issued again by Cloppenburg in a French edition of 1636 and by Janssonius van Waesbergen in 1673, and with no text in 1676.
Note the mark of a crack in the plate on the left hand side ; in later editions of the map this crack is larger.
Paper has chain lines.
Wormhole at bottom left outside neat line matches those on "Scotia Regnum [north]" and "[Scotland]" map showing they came from the same atlas
On verso: French text beginning "mais au haut de ses montagnes..."; page 56.
Koeman
Scotland with Orkney and Western Isles.
Charlotte Smith Collection.
Scotland