| Content Description | Title: Eboracum, Lincolnia, Derbia, Nottinghamia, Lecestria, Rutlandia, et Norfolcia. Per Gerardum Mercatorum Cum Privilegia.
Name: Mercator, Gerard (1512 - 1594)
Role: Engraver
Scale: Miliaria mediocria Angliae 30 [1:500,000]
Size: 34 x 40cm
Details: Coloured. Four cardinal points. Latitude and longitude. [The prime meridian is that of the Canary Isles, ie. Nottingham 19' 22" E]
Source: Detached from the third part of Mercator's Atlas added in 1595 by his son Rumold, and reprinted in 1602 and 1606. See R A Skelton 'County Atlases of the British Isles 1579-1850' (London, Carta Press 1970) pp.220 - 225. |