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    "label": "Cornubia, Davonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monumetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Pembroke, Cardigan, Radnor, Breknoke, Herefordia, & Wigornia",
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    "title": "Cornubia, Davonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monumetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Pembroke, Cardigan, Radnor, Breknoke, Herefordia, & Wigornia",
    "description": "These two maps, portraying portions of Cornwall and Wales, were originally prepared by Gerard Mercator, one of the greatest of early Dutch map makers. These two atlas sheets were published in either the 1628 or 1633 French edition of Mercator and Jodocus Hondius’s Atlas. Originally published in 1595, this book of maps was the first such publication to use the term “atlas” to describe a collection of published maps. The use of this term is often associated with the Greek Titan, Atlas, who was condemned by Zeus to carry the heavens and earth on his shoulders for all time.",
    "date": "[\"[1633]\"]",
    "year": 1633,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6t053s73b",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "Latin",
    "identifierLocal": "05_04_000032",
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        "Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594"
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        "Cornwall (England : County)--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "West Country (England)--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Wales--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Great Britain--Maps--Early works to 1800"
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        "Wales"
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    "country": "England",
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    "pubPlace": "Amsterdam",
    "publisher": "J. Hondius"
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        "Bottom/south sheet.",
        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "Appears in Mercator's Atlas. Amsterdam. 1633.",
        "Exhibited in “Faces and Places,” at the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, October 2003 - September 2004. MB (BRL)"
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