Petrus Kaerius coelavit. Relief shown pictorially. Bar scale on map given in "Milliaria Germanica". North oriented toward bottom of sheet. Decorative border and cartouche, compass rose, rhumb lines. Cities in red; forests in green. Hondius acquired Mercator's atlas plates in 1604, added to them, and re-issued them as the "Mercator-Hondius Atlas" in 1606. From Hondius' Mercator-Hondius atlas, 1606.
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Keere, Pieter van den, 1571-approximately 1646, Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594, and Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612
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