"Lithuania", Mercator, Gerard
Subject: Lithuania
Period: 1610 (circa)
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Color: Hand Color
Size:
17.2 x 14.6 inches
43.7 x 37.1 cm
This is an early map of Lithuania and a portion of Poland and present-day Belarus from the Baltic Sea down to the juncture of the Bog and Dnieper Rivers. The map is detailed with pictorial illustrations of forests and cities, and adorned with a strapwork cartouche. French text on verso.
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Condition: B+
Watermarked paper with some minor foxing and a bottom centerfold separation that just enters neatline and has been closed on verso. There is non-archival tape on the edges of the sheet on verso, confined to blank margins.
