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£2250
CHINA Veteribus SINARUM REGIO nunc Incolis TAME dieta.
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Maps -> Asia -> China
HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


An elegantly engraved map of the region with the eastern part of China (bounded in the northwest by the Great Wall) dominated by several large lakes. The fictitious Chaimay Lacus is shown with numerous rivers flowing south into India and Siam. Korea is depicted as a strangely shaped island ...

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 41 / 19½ x 16

£1800
Exquisita & magno aliquot mensium periculo lustrata et iam retecta Freti Magellanici facies.
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HONDIUS, Jodocus edition of MERCATOR


Important early map of the Straits of Magellan, predating the discovery of the Straits of Le Maire. A classic early Mercator map, featuring 3 large strapwork cartouches, one of which includes a profile view of the entrance to the Strait. The ornate compass rose point downward, indicating North at ...

Dimensions (W x H): 46 x 35 / 18 x 14

£2200
IMPERII SINARUM NOVA DESCRIPTIO
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Maps -> Asia -> China
JANSSON, Jan


A decorative map of China embellished with sailing ships and junks, a title cartouche flanked by Chinese and Jesuit men and a scale of miles surrounded by putti. The Great Wall is shown and Korea has a more or less correct peninsular shape, and there are many cities noted throughout. Johannes ...

Dimensions (W x H): 53 x 47 / 21 x 18½

£2300
INDIA quae ORIENTALIS dicitur, et INSULAE ADIACENTES.
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JANSSON, Jan


An important and attractive Dutch map of South East Asia, showing Dutch discoveries in northern Australia. The map includes South East Asia in general with all of Malaysia, the East Indies, the Philippines, Indonesia, Indochina, Maledives and Southern China with the Pearl River Delta, Taiwan, and ...

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 39.5 / 19½ x 15½

£120
PARAGVAY, O PROV DE RIO DE LA PLATA cum regionibus adiecentibus TUCUMAN et STA. CRUS DE LA SIERRA
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JANSSON, Jan


Johannes Janssonius (1588 - 1664), more familiarly known as Jan Jansson, was a Dutch cartographer who produced his first maps of France and Italy in 1616 and continued from then onwards publishing a large number of maps which were almost comparable to Blaeu in quality. During the 1630s he went into ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19.5 x 14.5 / 7½ x 5½

£850
RUSSIA cum confinijs.
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HONDIUS, Jodocus edition of MERCATOR


Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) ranks as one of the greatest cartographers in history, not only for the extremely fine maps he produced, but also for the innovations which he introduced into cartographic science. Through his constant accumulation of new geographic and cosmological data, Mercator was ...

Dimensions (W x H): 48 x 35 / 19 x 14

£245
SEPTENTRIO NALIUM Terrarum descript.
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 13.5 / 7½ x 5½

£950
SICILIAE Regnum.
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Hondius, Jodocus edition of Mercator


Attractive map in original hand colour and featuring a decorative title cartouche.

Dimensions (W x H): 48 x 34 / 19 x 13½

£850
TARTARIA
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HONDIUS, Jodocus edition of MERCATOR


An attractive example of Hondius' map of Tartary, China, Korea and adjacent regions. The map shows the Great Wall of China, Korea as an island, a very early example of the the Northwest Coast of America, naming Cape de Fortuna and the Straits of Anian between Asia and North America, an incomplete ...

Dimensions (W x H): 49.5 x 34 / 19½ x 13½

£620
TERRITORIO DI SIENA con il Ducato di CASTRO
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JANSSON, Jan


Johannes Janssonius (1588 - 1664), more familiarly known as Jan Jansson, was a Dutch cartographer who produced his first maps of France and Italy in 1616 and continued from then onwards publishing a large number of maps which were almost comparable to Blaeu in quality. During the 1630s he went into ...

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 38 / 19½ x 15

£445
AETHIOPIA SUPERIOR vel INTERIOR vulgo ABISSINORVM sive PRESBITERI IOANNIS IMPERIVM.
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JANSSON/HONDIUS


Map of central and eastern Africa, showing the nonexistent lakes Zaire and Zaflan. Wild beasts fill the unexplored interior. Decorated cartouche, with title flanked by turbanned figures, shielded from a burning sun by African cherubs with umbrellas. Ref:Koemans, Atlantes Neerlandici, volI 8720:1.B

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 38 / 19½ x 15

£75
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of a part of Germany from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£350
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HONDIUS, Jodocus


Hondius’ edition of Mercator’s classic map

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 34 / 19½ x 13½

£145
ABISSINORUM SIVE Pretiosi Ionnis Imperium.
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JANSSON, Jan


Beautiful map of east Africa from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius, Abraham Goos and others, engraved additional maps showing new discoveries.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£110
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 14.5 / 8 x 5½

£345
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Hondius, Jodocus edition of Mercator


Elaborate strapwork cartouche. The map shows part of southern Italy, south of Rome, with bits of both coasts, with sea decorated in typical Hondius style.

Dimensions (W x H): 48 x 35 / 19 x 14

£295
Aegyptus Antiqua
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after JANSSON


Very similar to Jansson’s map of the same name, but with addition of an inset map of the eastern Mediterranean. The print is less bold, the decorated cartouche is a little smaller

Dimensions (W x H): 46.5 x 39.5 / 18½ x 15½

£220
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after JANSSON


Very similar to Jansson’s map of the same name, but with addition of an inset map of the eastern Mediterranean. The print is less bold, the decorated cartouche is a little smaller than Jansson’s map.

Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 37 / 20 x 14½

£275
AFRICAE DESCRIPTIO.
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GOOS, Abraham.


Beautiful map of Africa from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius, Abraham Goos and others, engraved additional maps showing new discoveries.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£75
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of a part of Germany from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Petrus Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 5½ x 7½

£75
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of a part of Germany from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Petrus Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£220
AMERICA MERIDIONALIS.
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of South America from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius, Abraham Goos and others engraved additional maps showing new discoveries.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£1100
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GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig


This map is a reduced version of the one Merian engraved for Johann Ludwig Gottfried in 1631. It is one of many derivative maps of the Jodocus Hondius, 1618. One noticeable difference is the altered perspective of the inset map of Greenland. Matthew Merian was not only a publisher, but an ...

Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 27.5 / 14 x 11

£4950
AMERICA/Jodocus Hondius excudit Amsterodami.
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HONDIUS, Jodocus


This map was engraved by Jodocus Hondius for his first edition of Gerard Mercator’s Atlas. It was issued alongside the America siue India Nova by Michael Mercator in 1595. Produced on a stereographic projection like more and more maps of the time, it is an amalgam of various sources. It ...

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 37.5 / 19½ x 15

£345
AMERICAE DESCRIPTIO.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of the Americas from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. The map shows a conjectured north-west passage, and a large land mass between Asia and North America.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 5½ x 8

£450
Anglesey, Wight, Garnesay, Iarsey
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MERCATOR, Gerard


Four maps in one of these British islands. Two of the maps have Hondius style shot silk effect sea, and the other two have Ortelius style stippling. The plate was originally published in Mercator’s atlas and subsequently in the Mercator-Hondius atlas, the Mercator-Hondius-Janssonius atlas and the ...

Dimensions (W x H): 43 x 31.5 / 17 x 12½

£175
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19.5 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£350
ANGLIA REGNUM
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JANSSON, Jan


A very pretty, detailed map of England and Wales, showing counties and rivers, with hills, forests and towns shown pictorially. With elegant sailing ships at sea. Royal coat of arms at top right, Irish and Scots arms on map. Decorative title cartouche on right side crowned with a coat of arms with ...

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38.5 / 19½ x 15

£275
ANGLIA SCOTIA et HIBERNIA.
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MERCATOR, Gerard


Attractive map of Great Britain from the Cloppenburgh editon of the Atlas Minor. French text on verso. Title cartouche at top left. This edition of the map has a very attractive shot-silk effect sea, the Jansson edition of the same map leaves the sea blank.

Dimensions (W x H): 25.5 x 18.5 / 10 x 7½

£195
ANGLIA.
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Bertius, Petrus


Attractive little map of England and Wales, with title at top right. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

£150
ANGLIA.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of England from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 5½ x 7½

£120
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 17.5 x 12 / 7 x 4½

£120
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 18 x 12 / 7 x 4½

£110
Barbaria, Tunis und Aegypten.
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Three maps on one print from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.The upper map shows the whole of North Africa. The lower maps are of Tunis and the Nile Delta.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 5½ x 7½

£110
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£300
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JANSSON, Jan


Jansson’s handsome map of the Basque region. Ships at sea, compass points, rhumblines, title cartouche at lower right, two shields (one empty), scale with cherub at lower left.

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 38 / 19½ x 15

£75
BRABANTIAE Ducatus.
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of part of Belgium from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.Petrus Kaerius, Abraham Goos and others aded maps to the later editions of the Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£95
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£85
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£220
BRITTANIA.
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BERTIUS, Petrus


Attractive map of Brittany in France. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's Geographia. In 1618 he moved ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

£150
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


Inset maps of Corfu, Sanorimi, Zante, Milo, Nicsia and Scarpanto. In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as ...

Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 14.5 / 8 x 5½

£165
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MERCATOR, Gerard/HONDIUS, Jodocus


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 18.5 / 10 x 7½

£195
CERRO de POTOSI.
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BERTIUS, Petrus


Attractive view of the fabled ‘silver mountain’ whose seemingly limitless supplies of silver flooded Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

£245
CEYLON [and the Maldive Islands].
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Bertius, Petrus


Two maps on one sheet: Ceylon to the right and the Maldives to the left. Ships and sea-monsters. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

£145
CHILI.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of central Chile from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. North to the left of map

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£95
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£75
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of a part of Germany from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£650
COMITATUS DORCESTRIA sive DORSETTIA; Vulgo Anglice Dorsetshire
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALCK, Gerard


Splendid map of Dorset divided into its hundreds, with decorated cartouche at top left, ships at sea, compass rose, rhumb lines, 4 shields (one is empty) at top right, and the Royal Seal at top centre. The map is very similar to (but more decorative than) Jansson’s map of the same name.

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38 / 19½ x 15

£120
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 18 x 12 / 7 x 4½

£120
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 18 x 12 / 7 x 4½

£120
COMITATUS LAGENIAE.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of East Coast of Ireland from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 5½ x 7½

£245
CONGO Regnum Christian in Africa.
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BERTIUS, Petrus


Attractive little map of the Congo, ships and seamonster at sea, title cartouche to the right’, ‘Lunae montes’( Mountains of the Moon) erroneously placed to the south. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

£145
Cornubia, Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monumetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Penbrok, Breknoke et Herefordia.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of Southwest England and South Wales from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 5½ x 7½

£130
CORSICA/ SARDINIA.
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of part of Italy from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£165
DEVONIAE DESCRIPTIO.
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of Devon from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius, Abraham Goos and others engraved additional maps.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£75
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of a part of Germany from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Petrus Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 5½ x 7½

£120
Eboracum, Lincolnia, Derbia, Staffordia, Notinghamia, Lecestria,Rutlandia et Norfolkia.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of the eastern counties of England, from Norfolk to Durham, from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 5½ x 7½

£245
ELBA.
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Bertius, Petrus


Beautiful little map of Elba, with title cartouche of Neptune’s mouth at top right, galley at top left and a seamonster at lower right. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

£95
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£75
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of a part of Germany from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Petrus Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£120
FESSAE REGNUM.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of northern Morocco from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£95
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£350
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Hondius, Jodocus edition of Mercator


A beautiful map of the northern Adriatic from the popular Hondius edition of Mercator, with an ornamental strapwork cartouche, and stippled sea. The map shows Venice, Trieste and the northern Dalmatian Islands

Dimensions (W x H): 47 x 34.5 / 18½ x 13½

£85
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£110
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 13.5 / 7½ x 5½

£120
FRETI MAGELLANICI ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire exactissima delineatio.
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of Tierra del Fuego and the Magellan Straits from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius, Abraham Goos and others, engraved additional maps showing new discoveries.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£120
Frisia Occidentalis
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 17.5 x 12 / 7 x 4½

£350
GALLAECIA REGNUM descriptio a F. Fer Ojea
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JANSSON, Jan


Jansson’s handsome map of Galicia. Decorated cartouche at lower left, shield flanked by cherubs at upper left, ships at sea, compass roses and rhumb lines.

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 38 / 19½ x 15

£120
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 18 x 12 / 7 x 4½

£130
GUINEA.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of coastal West Africa, with an inset map of San Tome. From Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius, Abraham Goos and others engraved additional maps.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£75
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of a part of Germany from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Petrus Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£110
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£195
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 18 x 12 / 7 x 4½

£245
HISPANIAE NOVAE NOVA DESCRIPTIO.
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of Mexico from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius, Abraham Goos and others provided additional maps showing new discoveries.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 5½ x 5½

£220
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Bertius, Petrus


Very attractive little map of the northern Adriatic near Trieste. Ships and monsters at sea. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

£75
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of a part of Germany from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Petrus Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 5½ x 7½

£95
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£165
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 14.5 / 8 x 5½

£300
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Maps -> Asia -> Japan
HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 13.5 / 7½ x 5½

£220
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Maps -> Asia -> India
HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19.5 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£245
INDIA ORIENTALIS.
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of South East Asia from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius, Abraham Goos and others, engraved additional maps showing new discoveries.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£195
Insula and Arx. MOSAMBIQUE.
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BERTIUS, Petrus


Delightful little map of the island of Mozambique, discovered by Vasco da Gama in 1492. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

£85
INSULA CEILAN qua incolis Tenarisin dicitur.
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of Sri Lanka from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius, Abraham Goos and others, engraved additional maps showing new discoveries.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£150
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 18 x 14.5 / 7 x 5½

£1250
Insula Javae cum parte insularum Borneo Sumatrae et circumjacentium insularum novissima delineatio
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALCK Gerard


A superb map of the island of Java showing its relationship to Bali, Sumatra and Borneo. Very decorative title cartouche with natives and a cherub. Map scale in cartouche with cherubs and mermaids. The Schenk and Valck families were closely linked by marriage. Most of their work consisted of ...

Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 42 / 20 x 16½

£1800
INSULA sive REGNUM SICILIAE Urbibus praecipuis exornatum et novissime editum per F. de Wit.
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DE WIT, Frederick


Map published in the Atlas Major, 1680 circa. It is decorated with five inset maps depicting views and plans of Sicilian ports of Messina, Palermo, Catania and Trapani, and a plan of Messina erroneously called Milazzo. Cartouche with dedication to Joanni Uytenbogaert embellished with coat of arms ...

Dimensions (W x H): 59 x 50.2 / 23 x 20

£1200
Insularum Indiae Orientalis Nova Descriptio
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALCK Gerard


A superb map of the East Indies. Decorative title cartouche with natives holding spears and swords. Map scale also in cartouche with mermaid. The sea decorated with ships a sea monster and a compass rose. The Schenk and Valck families were closely linked by marriage. Most of their work ...

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 39 / 19½ x 15½

£200
IRLANDIA.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 5½ x 7½

£245
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Bertius, Petrus


Mqp of the Italian island of Ischia. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's Geographia. In 1618 he moved ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

£120
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 13.5 / 8 x 5½

£95
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£145
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£110
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 14.5 / 8 x 5½

£345
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HONDIUS, Jodocus


Jodocus Hondius’ edition of Mercator’s map.

Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 46 / 14 x 18

£245
MARE RUBRUM.
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Bertius, Petrus


TA fine little map of the Red Sea with Suez (north) to the right and Aden to the left. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

£110
MAROCCHI REGNUM.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of Morocco from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 5½ x 7½

£75
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


A delightful map of Holland. From Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 15 / 7½ x 6

£95
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£175
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 14.5 / 8 x 5½

£75
NAMURCUM Comitatus.
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of part of Belgium, from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius and other cartographers added maps to this and other later editions of the Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£245
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Bertius, Petrus


Attractive map of Turkey, including Cyprus and many of the Greek Islands, Cartouche at lower right. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

£195
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 13.5 / 7½ x 5½

£350
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JANSSON, Jan


Jansson’s handsome map of Navarre. Illustrated cartouche at lower left, shields, coat of arms and secondary cartouche with scale.

Dimensions (W x H): 49.5 x 41 / 19½ x 16

£165
NORFOLCIAE DESCRIPTIO.
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of Norfolk from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius, Abraham Goos and others engraved additional maps.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£110
Northumbria.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of northern England, including the Isle of Man from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 5½ x 7½

£195
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 14 / 8 x 5½

£75
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of a part of Germany from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Maps by other cartographers, including Kaerius, and Abraham Goos were added to this and other later editions.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£75
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


A detailed map of Lower Saxony, Germany. From Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 15 / 8 x 6

£120
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£95
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


A delightful map of Bavaria, Germany. From Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 18 x 14 / 7 x 5½

£85
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£145
PARAGUAYO Prov de Rio de la Plata cum regionibus adiacentibus Tucuman et Sta Crus de la Sierra.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of part of South America around Paraguay from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Title cartouche at top right.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£130
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£130
PERU.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of Peru from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. North to left of map.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£195
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Bertius, Petrus


Attractive little map of Poland, scales at top left, title cartouche at lower left. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

£150
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MERCATOR, Gerard/HONDIUS, Jodocus


Handsome map of Portugal with north to the left, ship at sea. In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. ...

Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 18.5 / 10 x 7½

£130
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of Connaught on the west coast of Ireland from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius, Abraham Goos and others engraved additional maps.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£165
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£375
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HONDIUS, Jodocus


Jodocus Hondius’ edition of Mercator’s map. a beautiful map of southern Italy with north to the right. Strapwork cartouche, shot silk effect sea, ship at sea.

Dimensions (W x H): 46 x 34 / 18 x 13½

£300
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Hondius, Jodocus edition of Mercator


A beautiful map of southern Italy from the popular Hondius edition of Mercator, with an ornamental strapwork cartouche, and typical Hondius-style sea. The map shows Apulia, Calabria, Barri, and the tip of Sicily

Dimensions (W x H): 46 x 34 / 18 x 13½

£130
REGNA PEGU et ARACAM.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of part of Myanmar from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. North to the right of map.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£165
Russia cum Confinijs
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 14 / 8 x 5½

£245
SABAVDIA.
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BERTIUS, Petrus


Map of ‘ Sabavida’, which covers the French Alps, or Chambery. Title cartouche at lower left. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

£95
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£95
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£95
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½

£120
SCOTIA Meridonalis.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of southern Scotland from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 5½ x 7½

£130
SCOTIA septentionalis.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of northern Scotland from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 5½ x 7½

£100
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 14.5 / 8 x 5½

£175
SEPTENTRIONALIUM Terrarium descript.
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MERCATOR/JANSSON


Beautiful map of the Arctic Ocean from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£450
Sinus Gangeticus vulgo Golfo de Bengala
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALCK, Gerard


The style of this beautiful map and its decorative cartouche are very like Jansson and suggest this is one of the maps that Schenk and Valck reissued from Jansson’s Atlas Novus. (Morton and Bannister, p120) North faces to the right. The Bay of Bengal is decorated with compasses and ships at full ...

Dimensions (W x H): 53 x 46 / 21 x 18

£85
STIRIA.
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KAERIUS, Petrus


Beautiful map of Stiria, now in modern southern Austria from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius and others added maps ot the later editions of the Atlas Minor.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

£395
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HONDIUS, Jodocus


Jodocus Hondius’ edition of Mercator’s map. Strapwork cartouche at top left. Stippled sea. The map shows the North East of Italy. with rivers, towns and mountains

Dimensions (W x H): 47 x 35 / 18½ x 14

£120
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 14.5 / 8 x 5½

£145
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan


In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½