Bertius’ Map of Northern Scotland Printed Area Measurement_49.5 x 57 cm The map was probably published

The map was probably published in the field: this edition was passed by censor

and his maps were sold throughout Europe

south and midlands

Georg Braun wrote the text and Ortelius himself - who travelled through Italy with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied a significant proportion of the material

Bertius’ Map of Northern Scotland Printed Area Measurement_49.5 x 57 cm The map was probably publishedThis map of Northern Scotland is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them "undoubtedly the finest set of miniature maps