Scotiae Regnum /
Mercator, Gerhard,1512-1594.
Hondius, Hendrik,1573-
[Amsterdam : H. Hondius,
1630].
Relief shown pictorially.
Bottom right corner: "Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum priuilegio".
Text on verso in Latin with heading Scotiae III. Tabula, woodcut biblical scene surrounding letter E, beginning "Excipiunt Taichiam Ocelli montes...".
Map was first published in Mercator's "Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura" printed in Duisberg in 1595.
The text, pagination, binders mark and woodcut initials show this map was issued in the 1630 publication of the "Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura" by Hendrik Hondius.
Imprint derived from the atlas in which the map was issued.
Shows latitude and longitude from Ferro meridian.
Hand coloured county boundaries.
Zigzagged sea.
On verso: pages number 63, 64.
Binders mark: Aa
Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici
EMS
Northern Scotland, with Hebrides and Orkney.