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y$008$999999
y$040$UkDhU|cUkDhU
t$245$Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis episcopatus. /|c[By G. Mercator].
e$255$Scale: Scale indeterminable.
e$255$Scale: [Scale bar: 3 1/8 in. = 20 miles].
p$260$Amstelodami :|bsumptibus Henrici Hondij,|c[1636].
r$300$1 map :|bhand col. ;|c33 x 45 cm
n$500$Contents description: map of Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham county, showing towns, villages, parks and castles, rivers and hills, but not roads. The Roman Wall is shown. County boundaries, parks and hills coloured. Title in a cartouche... Descriptive text on verso in English. Bar scale unit described on map as 'Milliaria mediocriae Anglicae'. -- From G. Mercator and J. Hondius, Atlas or a geographicke description... of the world (Amsterdam, H. Hondius & J. Jansson, 1636). Reprint of Mercator's map first published in 1595, with new cartouche and scale, Mercator's signature deleted, and sea shading removed.
n$510$Koeman ME 41. A, no. 7; Skelton (1970) p. 220-22; Turner (1960) 15b
b$700$Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
b$700$Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612
d$651$Durham (England : County) - Maps, General - 159-
d$651$Northumberland (England) - Maps - 159-
d$651$Cumberland (England) - Maps - 159-
n$934$83

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