1998 MERCATOR'S Map Magazine Mongol Empire Cuba Canada Ortelius Gold Rush

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1998 MERCATOR'S Map Magazine Mongol Empire Cuba Canada Ortelius Gold Rush
Complete, original issue of
Mercator's World — the Magazine of Maps, Exploration, and Discovery.
This is the May-June 1998 issue, Volume 3, Number 3, and the cover story is titled "The Path of Khan: The Mongol Empire and the Age of Discovery."
Other stories in the issue include Alexander von Humboldt's 1827 essay on Cuba, maps of California's gold rush era, Canada's Hinton Trail, the travel records of pirate Batholomew Sharpe, map collectors of the Italian Renaissance, identifying forgeries of maps by Ortelius, and the Age of Unreason: Cartographic blunders of the 15th and 16th centuries.
This magazine measures 10-3/4" x 8-1/2" and has 82 pages, printed on high-quality glossy paper. The scans below show a few of the inside pages:
Mercator's World
magazine is must reading for the map collector and this scarce back issue would be a wonderful addition to your library.
Condition:
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