Mercator, Gerard (1512-1594). Tab.x.Europae Macedoniam Epirum ac Peloponnesum [Macedonia, Epirus, Peloponnesus]. Amsterdam, 1578. 11222021 He looked at his hand

He looked at his hand on the exquisitely fine coverlet

the spine in seven compartments with raised bands

and it is thought that Tanner hastily prepared this edition in order to capitalize on the commercial opportunities

and City of New York in the left foreground

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Mercator, Gerard (1512-1594). Tab.x.Europae Macedoniam Epirum ac Peloponnesum [Macedonia, Epirus, Peloponnesus]. Amsterdam, 1578. 11222021 He looked at his handGerard Mercator (15121594)Tab. X. Europ. Macedonia, Epirus, et PeloponnesusAmsterdam, 1578Copperplate engravingSheet size: 19 x 22 inches This elegant and historically rich map of Macedonia, Epirus, and the Peloponnesus was engraved by Gerard Mercator and published in the 1578 edition of his famed Ptolemaic Atlas, one of the great cartographic achievements of the Renaissance. Grounded in the geographic framework of Claudius Ptolemy, Mercator's map