1613 Gerard Mercator Large Antique Map of Africa - Africa Ex Magna Insects Cartographically the only apparent difference

Cartographically the only apparent difference between this map by Jean and the map by Clouet is the updated cartographical data in the inset map of the Bering Straits and the updated information by the surveying by Captain James Cook and others after the 1780s

the fifth and final volume of lHistoire des minéraux appeared in 1788 at the Imprimerie des Bâtiments du Roi

Georges-Louis Leclerc

Paper size: - 36in x 22in (915mm x 560mm)

1613 Gerard Mercator Large Antique Map of Africa - Africa Ex Magna Insects Cartographically the only apparent differenceTitle : Africa Ex Magna orbis terra descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta. Studio & industria GM Iunioris Size: 22in x 18 3 4in (560mm x 475mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Date : 1613 Ref #: 34173 Description: This beautifully hand coloured original antique map of Africa by Gerard Mercator was published by Henricus Hondius in the 1613 French edition of Mercators Atlas, Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes Illustrissimi Ducis. This map is