EARLY EDITION MERCATOR ATLAS MINOR
Gerard Mercator I. Hondius Atlas MInor Gerardi Mercatoris á I. Hondio plurimis aeneis tabulis auctus atque illustratus. Dordrecht Adrianus Bottius 1610
Second edition.oblong 4to.7 index pages in manuscript. frontispiece(3), 684 pages including 153 engraved maps. Black and white.Binding in modern half leather,spine gilt.The map of Ducatus Mediolanensis is substituted by a manuscript map in brown ink" Stato di Milano de dicated to Comte Antonio Francesco Pietra and dated 1705".map of Hungaria supplied from another copy and text in manuscript pasted back.
Good copy of an early edition.First one dated 1607 and reprinted many times up to 1734.the author followed to ortelius in publishing pocket atlases more affordable to the public. This atlas was enlarged up to near 240 maps.Hondius had an expanded business of printing and publishing atlases, instruments and globes.
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