Mercator’s Map of Northern Lorraine Mapmaker(s)_Walter Graham Blackie unsophisticated copy

unsophisticated copy

This map of Zara and Sebinico on the Croatian coast is from the second series of maps engraved for the Epitome by Philip Galle

Anglesey Ins[ula]

with interior detail of relief

or that it was adapted to calculate cab fares or the twopenny post – that seems to have been Lingard’s idea

Mercator’s Map of Northern Lorraine Mapmaker(s)_Walter Graham Blackie unsophisticated copyThis map of Northern Lorraine is from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the London trade in the 1620s Janssonius commissioned new ones from Pieter van den Keere and Abraham Goos. Koeman attributes the relatively low number of Dutch editions to the prevalance of Latin and French among the better circumstanced people potential buyers of atlases. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 13.