America Meridionalis

Description

Printed map. Two visual scales [38 mm=leucæ Hispanicæ] and [36 mm=17 milliaria German]. Includes inset, "Cusco metropolis Peru" and illustrations. Probably originally from Jodocus Hondius' edition of Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes..., published 1619. Described in Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Vol. II, entry Me 26A, p. 326-330. Two pages of French text on verso under heading, "L'Ameriqve Meridionale", with pages numbered "376" and "375" respectively.
Acquired as part of the Banks Collection.

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America, South (RMC)

Details

Title: America Meridionalis
Creator
Subject
Description: Printed map. Two visual scales [38 mm=leucæ Hispanicæ] and [36 mm=17 milliaria German]. Includes inset, "Cusco metropolis Peru" and illustrations. Probably originally from Jodocus Hondius' edition of Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes..., published 1619. Described in Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Vol. II, entry Me 26A, p. 326-330. Two pages of French text on verso under heading, "L'Ameriqve Meridionale", with pages numbered "376" and "375" respectively. Acquired as part of the Banks Collection.
Publisher
Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594, Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612
Date: 1619
Type
Format: map
Identifier: macrepo:80973, local: RMC_107242r
Source
Language: lat
Relation
Coverage: South America, South America
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