Taurica chersonesus nostra aetate Przecopsca et Gazara dicitur

Taurica chersonesus nostra aetate Przecopsca et Gazara dicitur

Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594

1595

[Duysburgi] : Per Gerardum Mercatorem

Detailed map of the Crimea and surrounding regions between the northern coast of the Black Sea and Moscow. Shows ports, fortified cities and the mouths of the Danube. Decorative cartouche. An early state, with the original Mercator Cartouche. Borders, boundaries, forests and mountains hand colored.

Relief shown pictorially.
Removed from Mercator's Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. P. 105-106.
Signature on verso: Xx.
Text on verso p.105-106 of Taurica chersonesus.
Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, v. 2, p. 340.

Maps -- Early works to 1800

Crimea (Ukraine) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800

Latin

1 map : hand colored ; 30 x 38 cm

cartographic