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    "title": "Scotia Regnum",
    "description": "Relief shown pictorially.",
    "date": "[\"[1628–1633]\"]",
    "year": 1628,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
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    "language": "Latin",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_007040",
    "creators": [
        "Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594"
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        "Scotland--Maps--Early works to 1800"
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        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "Text on verso in French with heading L'Escosse, decorated letter L, beginning p.105 \"La plus Septentrionale partie de l'Isle ...\" and p.108 \"Chrestienne, qu'ils ont bien gardee ... \" Sig. Dd.",
        "Bottom right corner: \"Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum Priuilegio.\"",
        "Prime meridian: Ferro.",
        "Appears in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas and the Mercator-Hondius-Jansson Atlas. Amsterdam : H. Hondius, 1628 or 1633.",
        "Scotland with Hebrides and Orkney."
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