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Tartaria - Antique map

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Northeast Asia - Tartary. "Tartaria". Orig. copperplate engraving from G. Mercator's 'Atlas Minor'. Published by J. Hondius, 1609. With ornamental title-cartouche and another ornamental cartouche with the scale of map. 14:19 cm.

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Mercator, Gerardus

Hondius, Jodocus

Amsterdam

1609

Northeast Asia - Tartary. "Tartaria". Orig. copperplate engraving from G. Mercator's 'Atlas Minor'. Published by J. Hondius, 1609. With ornamental title-cartouche and another ornamental cartouche with the scale of map. 14:19 cm (5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inch.).

Koeman III, map 8050:351, ed. 351:21 (1609 Atlas Minor [Ger.]). - A miniature map of Tartary (a name used by Europeans from the Middle Ages until the twentieth century to designate a great tract of northern and central Asia stretching from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean inhabited by Turkic and Mongol peoples).


Tags: Antique map, Antique maps, Old maps, Map of Tartary, Tartaria, copperplate engraving, Mercator, Hondius, 1609