Mercator's first issue folio map of Sicily in original colour

MERCATOR, Gerard.

Siciliae Regnum.
Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, 1623, Latin edition. Original colour. 340 x 480mm.

Mercator's classic map of Sicily, first published in 1589, with a strapwork title cartouche and hatchured seas. Mercator's engraved signature appears bottom left. This example was issued in the first issue of the Mercator atlas to be published by Henricus Hondius.

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Stock ID : 23392