[Scotiae Regnum : Meridionalis]
Mercator, Gerhard,1512-1594.
Hondius, Hendrik,1573-
Amstelodami : apud Henricum Hondium.,
[1641]
Relief shown pictorially.
Text on verso in French with heading "La partie meridionale de l'Ecosse", with woodcut letter A, backed by a biblical scene, beginning "Apres la generale, suit la particuliere description d'Escosse...".
Title derived from the map of northern Scotland with which this map was published.
Shows latitude and longitude from Ferro meridian.
Map was first published in Mercator's "Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura" printed in Duisberg in 1595 ; after the 1636 English edition the sea engraving, and ship illustration, were removed.
The text, pagination, binders mark and woodcut initials show this map was issued in the 1641 edition of the "Nouveau theatre du Monde..." by Hendrik Hondius.
Date derived from dealer's information.
The map was untitled although a later variant, without text on verso, was issued entitled "Pars Scotiae australis".
Binders mark: P.
Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici
EMS
Southern Scotland, with Hebrides.