GUERNSEY WRIGHT JERSEY ENGLAND 1633 MERCATOR/HONDIUS ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
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Double your traffic. Anglesey./Iarsay./Garnesay./ Wight Vectis Olim. Description: Striking and higtly detaile copper engraved f our maps on one sheet depicting the English islands Jersey, Guernsey, Wright and Alderney . French text on the verso. Date : 1633 ( undated ) Dimension: Pa per size approx.: cm 57,4 x 48,1 Condition: Very strong a nd dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains and wiremarks. Uncolored as issued. Wide margins. Small foxing. Small browning. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Mapmaker: Gerard Mercator (1512 - 1594) is a seminal figure in the history of cartography. Mercator's calculations and map designs redefined the 16th century concept of cartography and were the first to break away from the Ptolemy model. Many of his systems of measurement, such as the Mercator Projection, are still in use today. Despite his prominence as a cartographer, he started his career as a crafter of scientific instruments. He did not construct his first map until 1540, when he made two maps, one of Flanders and another of Palestine. These two impressive works earned him the patronage of the Emperor Charles V, for whom he construed a globe and several large scale maps. Despite this imperial patronage, Mercator was accused of heresy and in 1552 fled to Duisburg. In Duisburg he set himself up as a cartographer and
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