Mercator-Cloppenburgh Map of Pomerania Printed Area Measurement_19 x 25.5 cm The outline of the Crimean

The outline of the Crimean peninsular becomes a puff of smoke - an ingenious use of cartography

This regional map of France is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers

Theophrastus’s moral character sketches are listed in English in a 19th century hand on the lower pastedown

3rd Earl of Ailesbury (1682-1747) styled here Viscount Bruce of Ampthill (his title 1685-1741)

Mercator-Cloppenburgh Map of Pomerania Printed Area Measurement_19 x 25.5 cm The outline of the CrimeanPomerania, running along the Baltic coast between Rostock and Gdansk, is now divided between Germany and Poland. The 'Atlas Minor was a pocket atlas derived from Mercator's cartography, published from 1607 onward by Jodocus Hondius (the Dutch publisher who had purchased Mercator's original copper printing plates in 1604 and who issued his first, highly successful edition of the full size atlas in 1606). In the 1630s Jan Cloppenburgh published a series