Scotiae tabula II.
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 churches, place names.
On the right hand side, scale statement reading: "Miliaria Scotica", 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 cartouche (left hand side); sea detail (zig-zag pattern); shaded coasts (outwards); some names in flourished script.
At bottom of page "H 2".
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 issue 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 southern Scotland from as far north as the Moray Firth on the east and Skye on the west including the south part of the Hebrides islands; also shows parts of England and Ireland.
Held at National Library of Scotland
Historia Mundi, or, Mercator's Atlas. p. 75.