This detailed small map covers the region including Erfurt, Weimar and Gotha. It provides information on the extensive river system and locates hundreds of tiny villages. The strapwork title cartouche incorporates the distance scale at lower right and the sign of Kaerius. From the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Jannsonius. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius published a reduced size version of Mercator’s “Atlas”, itself suitably titled “Atlas Minor”. The maps were copied from those of the great cartographer Mercator of around 1580-90 or were reductions of Hondius’ own maps of 1606. Almost 20 years later Joannes Janssonius commissioned a new set of copperplates to be engraved by Pieter Van Den Keere (Kaerius) and Abraham Goos. These maps were elegantly designed with decorative title cartouches, finely engraved and surprisingly detailed for their dimensions. Koeman “Atlantes Neerlandici” Me203.
Saxoniae Superioris Lusatiae Misniaeque descriptio
This detailed small map covers the region including Erfurt, Weimar and Gotha. It provides information on the extensive river system and locates hundreds of tiny villages. The strapwork title cartouche incorporates the distance scale at lower right and the sign of Kaerius. From the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Jannsonius. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius published a reduced size version of Mercator’s “Atlas”, itself suitably …
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 185 x 140 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
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Lovely small map of Upper Sachsen and Schlesien centered roughly on Meissen with place names, rivers and forests. From the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Jannsonius. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius published a reduced size version of Mercator’s “Atlas”, itself suitably titled “Atlas Minor”. The maps were copied from those of the great cartographer Mercator of around 1580-90 or were reductions of Hondius’ own maps of 1606.
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 195 x 145 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
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Superb map of the German Empire showing northern Europe, from the eastern tip of England to Poland, and extends from the North Sea to Venice and the coast of Croatia published by Johan Baptiste Vrients for the 1612 edition of Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. This plate was acquired by Vrients in 1603 from the engraver Franz Hogenberg (see his signature in the centre of the lower-left cartouche) and incorporated…
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Very detailed and decorative map in two sheets of Cologne showing in great care the course of Rhine from Coronelli’s Corso Geografico Universale published in Venice in 1690. Vincenzo Maria Coronelli is widely recognised as one of Italy?s most famous and greatest cartographers. He received an ecclesiastical education at the convent of the Minor Conventuals and also studied theology in Rome. However, his interests in geography and cartography were awoken early in his ecclesiastical career and neve
- Year: 1690
- Dimension: 450 x 610 mm each
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Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg are the central theme of this appealing map. It covers from Lubeck and the Baltic Sea in the north to Celle, Rathenow and Spandau in the south. Adorned with strapwork title and scale cartouches. From the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Jannsonius. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius published a reduced size version of Mercator’s “Atlas”, itself suitably titled “Atlas Minor”. The maps were …
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 195 x 145 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
