Mercator’s Map of Pays Boulonnais & Guînes Printed Area Measurement_20.5 x 30.5 cm Town views and plans were

Town views and plans were all taken from direct observation rather than improvised in the manner of some earlier geographical works - it was not unknown for the same view to appear in more than one guise

Bacon’s large scale plan of the City of London

The name 'Isle of St Laurence' was given by the Portuguese

giving three OCLC numbers: 71569063

Mercator’s Map of Pays Boulonnais & Guînes Printed Area Measurement_20.5 x 30.5 cm Town views and plans wereThis is Mercator's map of Pays Boulonnais and Gunes 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