ARTIST: Gerard Mercator
MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving
DATE: 1578.
EDITION SIZE: 13 7/8 x 18" (353 x 459 mm) plus margins.
DESCRIPTION: Mercator's Ptolemaic map of southern Russia and the Caucausus - Armenia and Georgia. This map appeared in the 1578 or first edition of Mercator's "Geographia", based upon the works of Claudius Ptolemy. The Crimea and part of the Black Sea are also shown.
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CONDITION: Good condition. Original hand coloring.
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