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

Atlas Minor is a pocket atlas of maps compiled by Gerhard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius and printed in 1609 in Amsterdam, a compact reference set for scholars and travellers. Its pictures are small engraved regional maps with dense place names, rivers, borders and compass-marked frames, offering a designer dense cartographic linework, decorative cartouches and lettering in an early modern style.

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