Mercator

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Mercator

MERCATOR, Gerard Atlas or A Geographicke description of the Regions. Counties and Kingdoms of the world,

The scarce English edition of the Mercator/Hondius atlas in original colour

£250,000

By MERCATOR, Gerard, Anno 1636 - 1638.

MERCATOR, Gerard; Jodocus HONDIUS Atlas.

The first ‘atlas’

£100,000

By MERCATOR, Gerard; Jodocus HONDIUS, 1613.

DUDLEY, Robert Dell'arcano del Mare di D. Ruberto Dudleo Duca di Northumbria, e Conte di Warwich…

The first atlas on Mercator’s Projection

£900,000

By DUDLEY, Robert, 1661.

CLOPPENBURG, Johannes Gerardi Mercatoris - Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica mundi et fabricate figura

From the inventory of the Van Keulen family of cartographers

£50,000

By CLOPPENBURG, Johannes, Anno 1630.

WYLD, James World on Mercator's Projection, Shewing the Distribution of Gold.

Unrecorded separate issue, and a possible prototype

£2,500

By WYLD, James, [c1851].

HAKLUYT, Richard, and WRIGHT, Edward The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or Over-land,

“the great prose epic of the Elizabethan period” – the first English map on Mercator’s projection; the first map to name Lake Ontario; and one of the first maps to use the name “Virginia”

£800,000

By HAKLUYT, Richard, and WRIGHT, Edward, 1599–1600.