Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio. Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum Privilegio

• Main Authors: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594, Mercator, Rumold, approximately 1545-1599
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Rumold Mercator 1595
• Subjects: Imaginary; Arctic; Dee; Fortuna; Four Islands; North Pole
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This plate was originally published in 1595 in the posthumous part III of Mercator's Atlas. Verso: Latin text, 'Polus Arcticus Ac Terrarum Circumiacention descriptio' "The rare first state of Mercator's map of the North Polar regions, the first separately-published map of th...