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

His interest in cartography and geography led him to compile and publish one of the earliest atlases dedicated solely to the Americas

The delicate gilded finish and linear elegance evoke the sophistication of early 19th-century British craftsmanship

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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