MERCATOR RUMOLD
Orbis Terrae compendiosa descriptio ex ea, quam ex Magna Universali Mercatoris Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat in hac cómodioré formá a Hieron: Porro redact:
Date: Cologne,1997
mondo
P2050019
Subject: mappamondo
650,00 €
Copper engraving, mm 160x240. From “Geographiae Universae Cl. Ptolomaei…auctore…Io. Ant. Magini”. This map is a smaller version of Rumold Mercator's 1587 double hemisphere. It was engraved by Girolamo Porro, with a much abbreviated text beneath the image. Strapwork background, north pole depicted as sea, south as an extensive continent. Shirley, 202.
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