Livoniæ et Curlandiæ Descriptio, 1636

1636 Gerard Mercator –  Jan Jansson: “Livoniæ et Curlandiæ Descriptio.” Amsterdam, 36.5  x 47
cm / 14.4 x 18.5 inches, in an apparently unrecorded Third State of Mercator’s original map, first
published in the “Atlantis Pars Altera'” in 1595. In the second state Mercator’s imprint of Mercator is retained but “Amstelodami, Sumptibus Henrici Hondii. 1627” was added in the lower right corner. The heavy stippling of the sea has been removed in this 3rd state, perhaps to make it acceptable
for the new “Atlas Novus”