Mercator-Cloppenburgh Map of Pomerania Printed Area Measurement_19 x 25.5 cm and (probably) died in 1853

and (probably) died in 1853

This regional map of France is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers

The outline of the Crimean peninsular becomes a puff of smoke - an ingenious use of cartography

Tunis and ancient Carthage

Mercator-Cloppenburgh Map of Pomerania Printed Area Measurement_19 x 25.5 cm and (probably) died in 1853Pomerania, running along the Baltic coast between Rostock and Gdansk, is now divided between Germany and Poland. The 'Atlas Minor was a pocket atlas derived from Mercator's cartography, published from 1607 onward by Jodocus Hondius (the Dutch publisher who had purchased Mercator's original copper printing plates in 1604 and who issued his first, highly successful edition of the full size atlas in 1606). In the 1630s Jan Cloppenburgh published a series