LOWER LANGUEDOC FRANCE & SPAIN 1633 MERCATOR/HONDIUS ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
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Double your traffic. La Partie Meridionale du Languedoc . Description: Striking and hightly detailed copper engraved map covering the french region of Lower Languedoc and northern part of Spain. The map gives several topographic details concerning city, villages, rivers, forests. Map adorned with a large decorative starpwork cartouche including the title and a decorative cartouche including two scales of distances. Date : 1633 ( undated ) Dimension: Pa per size approx.: cm 57,3 x 48,1 Condition: Very strong a nd dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains and wiremarks. Uncolored as issued. Wide margins. Margins partially missed. S mall foxing. Small browning. Paper with waterstains. 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
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