"Persicum Regnum", Mercator/Hondius
Subject: Persia - Iran
Period: 1635 (circa)
Publication: Historia Mundi or Mercators Atlas
Color: Hand Color
Size:
7.3 x 5.6 inches
18.5 x 14.2 cm
Reduced from Hondius' folio map of the Persian Empire, this small map shows the region from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf. The map is filled with place names and pictorial topography and is adorned with strapwork cartouches for the title and scale of miles. From the English edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor, which was published from 1635-39 under the title Historia Mundi or Mercators Atlas by Michael Spark and Samuel Cartwright. English text on verso.
References: Van der Krogt (Vol. III) #8200:351.
Condition: A
On watermarked paper with faint show-through of text on verso. There are some spots in the blank margins and remnants of hinge tape on verso.
