[Atlas Minor]

Mercator, Gerhard, Hondius, Jodocus, Uffenbach, Peter · 1609 · [Excusum in aedibus Iudoci Hondij veneunt etiam apud Cornelium Nicolai item apud Ioannem Ianssonium Arnhemi] · 142 pictures

The Atlas Minor is a pocket atlas of regional maps compiled by Gerhard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius, printed in 1609 in the Low Countries for scholars and merchants who wanted affordable geography. The pictures are small copper-engraved maps with fine hatched coastlines, dense place-name lettering, and ornate decorative cartouches, offering a designer models of early modern cartographic ornament and lettering.

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