RUMOLD MERCATOR, Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio Quam ex Magna Vniuersali...
(Duisberg), 1587/1595/1602.
14" x 20 1/2". Full original color.  An excellent example.
Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold.   Shirley calls the engraving "a model of clarity and neatness".  First appearing in 1587, the map has a long and complex history.  It was originally published in Isaac Casaubon's edition of Strabo's Geographia and later appeared in at least two editions of Mercator's atlas.  Before Gerard Mercator's death the map may have also been separately issued, as well as being printed at Duisberg in the third and final part of Mercator's Atlas.  Then in 1595, after the death of his father, Rumold reissued the entire atlas as one work.  This example was printed at Duisberg by Mercator's heirs in 1602 before the plates were sold to Jodocus Hondius, who continued publication of the map through the early 1630s.
ref: Shirley 157; Koeman Me 12.