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    "title": "[Scotiae regnum]",
    "description": "Relief shown pictorially.",
    "date": "[\"[1628–1633]\"]",
    "year": 1628,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "Latin",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_007048",
    "creators": [
        "Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594"
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        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
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        "Scotland--Maps--Early works to 1800"
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        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "Map of southern Scotland.",
        "Bottom right corner: \"Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum priuilegio.\"",
        "Appears in the French ed. of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas and the Mercator-Hondius-Jansson Atlas. Amsterdam: H. Hondius, 1628 or 1633.",
        "Text on verso in French with heading La Seconde table d'Escosse, decorated letter A, beginnning p.109 \"Apres la Generale, suit la particuliere ... \", on p.112 \"Le vulgaire faint divers usage ... \" Sig. Ee.",
        "Map was first published in Mercator's \"Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura\" printed in Duisberg in 1595.",
        "Meridian from Ferro."
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