Asia : ex magna Orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta, studio & industria G.M. Iunioris.

Description:

Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 3 cm. = 125 Miliaria Germanica communia quorum 15 gradum unum latitudinus constituant." Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Originally published in Mercator's Atlas sive Cosmographicae ..., 1595. Includes part of Northern Australia and North-West America and Japan on a kit-shaped outline taken from Mercator's Atlas, 1569 edition. 38 x 48 centimeters Scale approximately 3 centimeters = 125 Miliaria Germanica communia quorum 15 gradum unum latitudinus constituant. Ames Library of South Asia Maps

Resource Link:

https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll246:179

Identifier:

UMN_ALMA:9916603790001701

Language:

lat

Creator:

Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594

Publisher:

G. Mercator Junior; Amstelodami?

Provider:

University of Minnesota

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Early maps, Pictorial maps, and Topographic maps

Temporal Coverage:

approximately 1569

Date Issued:

1628?

Spatial Coverage:

Asia

Rights:

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Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG