Mercator Ireland Set

Gerard Mercator
Irlandia regnum; Irlandia Regnum [two sheet map]; Ultoniae Orientalis pars; Udrone, Irlandiæ in Catherlagh Baronia.
Amsterdam, Henricus Hondius, 1633. Five maps, each c.335 x 420mm. Coloured.
£2,000
The complete set of five maps of Ireland by Gerard Mercator, famous for devising the famous Mercator Projection of the world. The maps are: a map of Ireland, orientated with north to the right; a two-sheet map, with north to the top; eastern Ulster; and Udrone, now County Carlow in Leinster. A very decorative set. MERC0035