A lovely 1914-18 Great War satirical postcard dated on verso 29 May 1915.
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A lovely 1914-18 Great War satirical postcard dated on verso 29 May 1915.
€ 120,00
A lovely 1914-18 Great War satirical postcard dated on verso 29 May 1915.
Nice miniature map of the British Isles from the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Jannsonius. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius published a reduced size version of Mercator’s “Atlas”, itself suitably titled “Atlas Minor”. The maps were copied from those of the great cartographer Mercator of around 1580-90 or were reductions of Hondius’ own maps of 1606. Almost 20 years later Joannes Janssonius commissioned a new set of copperplates to be engraved by Pieter Van Den Keere (K
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