Media Information

 
 
 
Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Africa. Ex magna orbis terre discriptione Gerardis Mercatoris desumpta.
Title in Translation:
Africa. Taken from the world atlas of ...
Publication Place:
Duisburg
Publisher:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Publication Date:
1595
Cartographer:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Height:
38 cm.
Width:
46 cm.
Scale:
Scale in German miles
Color:
Colored
Descriptive Notes:
Atlas first published in 1569. Map issued in several editions and in many languages. Includes Latin text on back of map. The cartouche is circular, surrounded by decorative scrolls and two satyrs.
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Africa
Period:
16th c.
Norwich Number:
21
Call Number:
NOR 0021
Source:
Atlas sive, Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura (1595)
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0021, p. 29
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Africa. Ex magna orbis terre discriptione Gerardis Mercatoris desumpta.