MERCATOR, Rumoldus
Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio
Orig. hand col. copper engr. (28,5 x 52,5 cm) with world map in two hemispheres from 'L'atlas ou méditations Cosmographiques de la Fabrique du Monde'. From the first French text edition. Text on verso starts with 'Pourtrait de la Terre Universelle'. Centerfold reinforced at the back. Good condition
Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into a double hemispherical form by his son Rumold to Isaac Casaubon's edition of Strabo's Geographia published in Geneva in 1587 with columns of text beneath the map. R.W. Shirley, map 157
