Mercator, G. / Hondius, J.

LT 041210

Austria > Upper and Lower Austria

"Austria Archiducatus"

Orig. coloured copper engraving by Gerard Mercator, published by J. Hondius, Amsterdam 1612, with privilege, 32,5 x 48,5 cm.

Perfect impression and condition, on strong paper, with wide margins, very nice and fresh original colours.

€ 475,-

Decorative map of Upper and Lower Austria, with the course of the Danube River from Passau to Bratislava and adjacent countries (Bohemia and Moravia in the North, Hungary in the East).

Gerard Mercator (1512 – 1594)

Cartographer, mathematician and globemaker. Pupil of Gemma Frisius in Louvain. From 1537 independent cartographer, moved to Duisburg 1552. There he made his most famous maps as the world map with Mercator's Projection at 18 sheets (1569). From 1585 he issued his atlas in single parts. The complete atlas was published posthumously 1595 and 1602, reissued by J. Hondius in Amsterdam from 1606 on. Some of his maps were bought by Blaeu 1629 and later on re-published.

Hondius

Family of engravers, cartographers and publishers in Amsterdam. Jodocus Hondius (1563 - 1612) aquired the plates for the Mercator atlas 1604, which he reissued - with texts by his brother-in-law Petrus Montanus - in a new enlarged edition (published by H. Hondius till 1641). His sons Jodocus Hondius jun. (1594 - 1629) and Henricus Hondius (1597 - 1651) took over the firm, continued by Henricus Hondius together with his brother-in-law J. Janssonius from 1630 on.

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