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First English edition, Walking Tree Press, 1998. ISBN 0-9659735-7-3.
An impressive large-format facsimile presentation of Gerardus Mercator\'s surviving Atlas of Europe, reproducing 17 individual folded maps accompanied by the scholarly illustrated text volume. The essays discuss the atlas, the origin of the term “atlas,” Mercator\'s map of Europe, the British Isles, and his 1569 world map.
Complete with all 17 maps, accompanying volume, cloth portfolio, and original slipcase. The original publication was marketed at $245, which is interesting context for what this was intended to be.
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