NORD-PAS-DE-CALAIS FRANCE 1633 MERCATOR/HONDIUS ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
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Double your traffic. Bolonia & Guines Comitatus . Description: Striking and hightly detailed copper engraved map centred on the French region Nord-Pas-de-Calais, oriented with West on top. The map gives several details concerning cities, villages, towns, rivers, mountains, forests. Map adorned with a strapwork title and scales of distances cartouche, a galleon and a large armorial. French text on the verso. Date : 1633 ( undated ) Dimension: Pa per size approx.: cm 57,8 x 48,2 Condition: Very strong a nd dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains and wiremarks. Uncolored as issued. Wide margins. Small foxing. Small waterstains. Small tears. 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
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