Mercator, G. / Hondius, J.

LT 081210

Africa > Continent

"Nova Africae tabula auctore Jodoco Hondio"

Decorative map of the Afrikan continent, with detailed and (at that time) most recent information about the coastlines and countries of Africa, the sea routes to Aisa and America, and about the slave trade over the Atlantic Ocean.

Orig. coloured copper engraing by Gerard Mercator, published by J. Hondius, Amsterdam 1612, 37,5 x 50,3 cm.

Perfect impression and condition, very nice original colours, on strong handmade paper.

€ 1.600,-

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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