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WORLD MAPS -- "ORBIS TERRAE compendiosa descriptio". (Duisburg, Mercator Heirs, 1587 or later). Engr. double-hemisphere world map within an elaborate strapwork border in beautiful handcolouring, with integral letterpress text below (in Latin, in four columns headed "De Mundi creatione ac constitutione brevis instructio"). 290 x 525 mm (w. text: 360 x 525 mm). (Professionally remargined, some loss of text, completed in manuscript hand).
Derived from the elder Mercator's world map of 1569, this celebrated world map was engraved by his son Rumold. - Latin text on v°. Koeman Me12 (1595B), Edition III (17 lines, no sign.); V.d. Krogt I, 0001:1A (1:011/012); Shirley 157.€ 4000
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