Mercator’s Miniature Map of Germany Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 31 cm and shows the Royal Festival

and shows the Royal Festival Hall (built for the 1951 Festival of Britain) and the Mermaid Theatre at Puddle Dock

although most of the European knowledge of the region in the first part of the 18th century was via Jesuit and Capuchin missionaries

Both worked from Elizabethan and Jacobean surveys by Saxton

A scroll in the top right of the map could be printed with the name of any sponsor: our example was issued by the transatlantic shipping company United States Lines

German and of course Latin

Mercator’s Miniature Map of Germany Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 31 cm and shows the Royal FestivalThis map shows the Germanic regions of Europe, including the Low Countries, Poland and Austria, and was engraved by Jodocus Hondius for the Atlas Minor. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 14. 6 x 19. 5 cm, black and white, numbered in an early hand in upper margin, light waterstaining in lower margin, Latin text on verso. References Koeman Me 186.