Scotia.
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), place names, settlements with churches and the border Scotland-England.
In bottom right hand corner, scale cartouche reads: "Miliaria Scotica comm.", with scale bar graded [0]-50.
Borders filled in with graduations of latitude and longitude.
The four cardinal points are written in the border.
Decoration: ornate title cartouche (top right corner); ship; sea monster; sea detail (stippled); the coasts are shaded outwards; some names in flourished script.
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 in later editions up to 1621. Also appears as illustration in "Purchas his pilgrimes" by William Stanley, 1625.
Originally issued in 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 Scotland including the Hebrides and Orkney islands.
Charlotte Smith Collection.