Parts of Scotland

45x35 cm

'Scotiae Regnum' Southern Scotland
Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum Privilegio 

Gerard Mercator (1512-1594), is considered one of the most influential pioneers in cartography. His work on the production of a set of over 100 maps in folio format to be bound into his Atlas began later in his life and after his death in 1594, the task of completing the work fell to his son, Rumold, who completed the third and final part, Pars Altera in 1595.
Pars Altera contained three maps of Scotland: Scotland on one sheet and Scotland divided North and South on two sheets and were Mercator's first maps of Scotland alone. The larger scale maps on two sheets were more accurate and contained more place names. The maps were re-issued several times, most notably by Henricus Hondius (1597-1651) who devoted much of his time publishing and expanding the Atlas until 1646.
This very good example, in early hand colour, of the south part of Scotland has French text verso and is from an edition by Henricus Hondius published in 1628.

D.G. Moir, Early Maps of Scotland vol.1. p.166