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Stock# 58738
Description
Nice example of Mercator's map of Greece from Mercator's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, first published in 1578 and republished in Amsterdam beginning in 1695.
Includes a Sea Monster, cartouche and a detailed treatment of the region.
Gerard Mercator published his edition of Ptolemy’s maps as what he intended as a companion to his Atlas of the Modern World. Beginning with the 1695 edition, the plates were re-worked, substituting a new cartouche within the map, containing a second title.
![[ Greece ] Exactissima totius Archipelagi nec non Graeciae Tabula in qua omnes subjacentes Regiones et Insulae distincte . . .](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/93082.jpg)
