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Mercator, Gerard (1512-1594). Tab.x.Europae Macedoniam Epirum ac Peloponnesum [Macedonia, Epirus, Peloponnesus]. Amsterdam, 1578. 11222021 Anton RoesslerGerard Mercator (15121594)Tab. X. Europ. Macedonia, Epirus, et PeloponnesusAmsterdam, 1578Copperplate engravingSheet size: 19 x 22 inches This elegant and historically rich map of Macedonia, Epirus, and the Peloponnesus was engraved by Gerard Mercator and published in the 1578 edition of his famed Ptolemaic Atlas, one of the great cartographic achievements of the Renaissance. Grounded in the geographic framework of Claudius Ptolemy, Mercator's map