Detailed map of the Crimea and surrounding regions between the northern coast of the Black Sea and Moscow. Shows ports, fortified cities and the mouths of the Danube. Decorative cartouche. An early state, with the original Mercator Cartouche. Borders, boundaries, forests and mountains hand colored.,Relief shown pictorially.nRemoved from Mercator's Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. P. 105-106.nSignature on verso: Xx.nText on verso p.105-106 of Taurica chersonesus.nKoeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, v. 2, p. 340.