1613 Gerard Mercator Large Antique Map of Africa - Africa Ex Magna Insects This period of Italian sojourn

This period of Italian sojourn greatly influenced his artistic style

A French artist and engraver of the early 19th century

The map was copied extensively by other mapmakers throughout the remainder of the seventeenth century and was replaced during the eighteenth century by maps that were in nearly all respects considerably inferior

Georges-Louis Leclerc

1613 Gerard Mercator Large Antique Map of Africa - Africa Ex Magna Insects This period of Italian sojournTitle : Africa Ex Magna orbis terra descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta. Studio & industria GM Iunioris Size: 22in x 18 3 4in (560mm x 475mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Date : 1613 Ref #: 34173 Description: This beautifully hand coloured original antique map of Africa by Gerard Mercator was published by Henricus Hondius in the 1613 French edition of Mercators Atlas, Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes Illustrissimi Ducis. This map is