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MERCATOR (GERARD) AND JODOCUS HONDIUS
Double portrait of Mercator and Hondius, [Amsterdam, 1619]

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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MERCATOR (GERARD) AND JODOCUS HONDIUS

Double portrait of Mercator and Hondius, double-page engraved mapsheet with portrait of Mercator and Hondius seated with globes, an atlas, map and map making equipment within a decorative cartouche, Latin text on verso, good margins, 385 x 445mm., [Amsterdam, 1619]

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Celebrated double portrait of Gerard Mercator (1512-94) and Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612), engraved for inclusion in the Atlas, sive cosmographicae meditationes, 1619.

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