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Southern Italy. "Puglia Piana, Terra di Barri, Terra di Otranto, Calabria et Basilicata". Orig. copper-engraving, G. Mercator, Duisburg, 1589. Orig. old colouring. With ornamental title-cartouche, a scale of map ("Miliaria Italica communia") and a ship. 34:45,5 cm.
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Mercator, Gerard
Duisburg
1589
Southern Italy. "Puglia Piana, Terra di Barri, Terra di Otranto, Calabria et Basilicata". Orig. copper-engraving, G. Mercator, Duisburg, 1589. Orig. old colouring. With ornamental title-cartouche, a scale of map ("Miliaria Italica communia") and a ship. 34:45,5 cm (13 1/2 x 18 inch.).
Koeman I, map 7402:1 (Napoli (South)), ed. 1:002/11 (1589-95). - A decorative map of Southern Italy from the rare first edition of Mercator's Tabulae Geographicae atlas. - A crack in the centerfold at the bottom (ca. 0,5 cm to the margin of the picture - without a loss of the picture) underlaid with old paper.