Antique Original Mercator Map Germany Germania Poland Baltic Sea Low Countries XX century and is a revised German

and is a revised German version of Kitchin’s map from 1777

Place/Date: Padova/1713

the atlas was not finished in his lifetime and only sections were finished and published before his death

and his name is known to this day as the inventor of the map projections named after him

whereas in fact it should be down nearly a straight line

Antique Original Mercator Map Germany Germania Poland Baltic Sea Low Countries XX century and is a revised GermanMap Maker Publisher Engraver: Gerard Mercator; Henricus Hondius Place Date: 1623 Amsterdam Size: 35. 5 x 48. 5 cm An attractive early map of Germany, embellished with a fine title cartouche. Latin text on the verso describes this area. Plus 4 pages description of Germany from the same atlas. From "Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura"; Editio Quinta; 1623 in Amsterdam. Jodocus Hondius (1563 1612), founder of the