Antique Map Cumberland and North Umbri Mercator, Gerard

Cumberland and North Umbri

Title: Angleterre. Northumbria, Cumberlandia et Dunelmensis Episcopatus. Petrus Caerius Caelavit.

Artist: Mercator, Gerard

Published: Amsterdam, I.E. Cloppenburgh,

Date: 1630

Size: [18,3 x 25,5 cm]

Technic: Copper engraving / Uncolored

Description: Copper engraving, uncolored as published. Detailed map of Cumberland and North Umbria at the southern border to Scotland. Published in the first Cloppenburgh edition of Gerhard Mercator's 'Atlas Minor' in 1630, verso French text. This is the first so-called Cloppenburgh editions which was a competive edition with new engraved maps in a larger format. Most of the maps were engraved by Pieter van den Keere. The Cloppenburg edition was continued for a couple of years but seems to have been suppressed after 1636 ... (Koeman Atlantes Neerlandici).

Notes: In excellent condition.

Condition: Excellent

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