Mercator’s Map of Northern Lorraine Mapmaker(s)_Walter Graham Blackie London Transport and its predecessors

London Transport and its predecessors seem to have been happy to distribute quantities of the official map at no charge (or a minimal one

visitors to the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley could view a ‘historical epic’ with a cast of 15

tiny wormtrack in the body of the map

This map of Zara and Sebinico on the Croatian coast is from the second series of maps engraved for the Epitome by Philip Galle

Mercator’s Map of Northern Lorraine Mapmaker(s)_Walter Graham Blackie London Transport and its predecessorsThis map of Northern Lorraine is from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the London trade in the 1620s Janssonius commissioned new ones from Pieter van den Keere and Abraham Goos. Koeman attributes the relatively low number of Dutch editions to the prevalance of Latin and French among the better circumstanced people potential buyers of atlases. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 13.