Mercator’s Map of British Islands Printed Area Measurement_59 x 39.5 cm and two coastal profiles

and two coastal profiles

At the bottom is a series of vessels illustrating the evolution of the British ‘navy’

Isles et Costes comprises entre Sandwich et Clay

Blaeu issued the first editions of his British atlas

Mercator’s Map of British Islands Printed Area Measurement_59 x 39.5 cm and two coastal profilesLa VIII Table dAngleterre Anglesey, Wight, Vectis olim, Garnsey, Iarsay Islands around the British coast were often grouped, in various combinations, by early mapmakers such as Mercator and Speed. The Hondius Janssonius map publishing business traced its roots back to Gerardus Mercator. Mercator coined the term atlas (after the wise, mythical, Mauritanian king rather than the weary titan) and the original Mercator Atlas (published in parts between