Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Cloppenburgh, Johannes
Title:
Ceilan - Ceylon - Sri Lanka
Date:
1632
Medium:
copper engraving
Size:
18.5 x 25 cm
Description:
Zeilan Sive Zeilon Insula. 715.
Early map of Sri Lanka based on the projection by Mercator Hondius of 1606.
Printed from the plates of the Cloppenburg editions of the Atlas Minor 1632. There are additional decorative elements to some maps, along with some updates to the maps. This edition of Mercator's 'Atlas'... was a changed larger format edition of the Atlas Minor. Its newly engraved maps fell in between the folio maps in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas and the Atlas Minor.
There is a mysterious note on the map, " Ceilan huius insulae descriptionem a Cypriano Sanchez cosmographo Hispano delineatam huic nostro operi inserendam dedit Clarissimus vir. Petro Plancius."
Reference
Koeman ME200 p.539.
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Item Code:
MA5441
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