Mercator 1595

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	item:- Kendal Library : Map 116
	Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, that is Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595. The map is one of five regional maps of Britain originally in an edition of the world atlas, 'Atlantis Pars Altera Geographia Nova Totius Mundi, Authore Gerardo Mercatore ... Duysburgi ...' The text on the reverse is pp.65,66 in Latin, headed 'ANGLIAE II TABULA Quae continet Northumbriam, Cumberlandiam Cmitatus & Dunelmensem Episcopatum.'
		Mercator 1595
	map feature:-	strapwork cartouche & swash lettering (sea areas labels) & labelled borders (Latin) & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (rectangular projection?) & sea wave effect & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & forests & county & settlements
	inscription:-	printed title cartouche, upper left NORTH- / UMBRIA, CUM- / BERLANDIA, ET / DUNELMENSIS / Episcopa : / tus.
	inscription:-	printed lower centre Per Gerardum Mercatorem / Cum Privilegio
	inscription:-	printed below scale line, below title cartouche Miliaria mediocria Angliae.
	scale line:-	20 miles = 79.6 mm
	wxh, sheet:-	53.5x42.5cm
	wxh, map:-	462x350mm
	scale:-	1 to 400000 ? (1 to 404358 from scale line, wrongly assuming a statute mile)

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