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HONDIUS, Jodocus II. Appendix Atlantis Maioris. [Amsterdam:] 1630.
2° (425 x 310mm). 47 double-page engraved maps, versos blank, most with wide margins, on various paper stocks, 5 folding, all on new guards (5 mounted on cloth, 5 with margins or corners restored, 11 with strenghtening and restoration to centre-folds, 2 with slight loss). Contemporary French red morocco covers and spine panels restored and remounted on modern morocco, original covers with gilt arms, spine lettered Appendix Atlantis Maioris Hondii MDCXXX. Later cloth box. Provenance: Honoré d'Agut, (died 1631), Councillor in the Parliament at Aix en Provence (gilt arms on covers. Olivier 1546, Fer 1, taken from a work dated 1623, and ownership ink stamp HDMB on the title, the initials of d'Agut and his wife Marguerite Blégiers, Fer 4); Thomas Anson of Shugborough (armorial bookplate); Trinity House (armorial bookplate).
AN IMPORTANT UNRECORDED EARLY PROTO-APPENDIX ATLAS BY JODOCUS II HONDIUS IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING, the majority of maps assembled in the atlas only known in four examples. Three other similar collections are recorded by Koeman although none appear to have a letterpress title; Maritime Museum Rotterdam (W.A Engelbrecht Collection); British Library, London (formerly J Keuning's copy described in Imago Mundi IV p.65); The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. The maps in this collection comprise 8 sheets with Henricus Hondius imprints dated 1629, 7 of which were published in his 1630 edition of the Atlas sive Cosmographicae, and one of Brabant not recorded in Koeman; 36 maps have Jodocus Hondius imprints, 33 of which accord with those described by Koeman in the Rotterdam collection Me 30; and in addition one map of Limburg first published in 1611, a map of Geldria also issued in Jansson's Appendix 1630 and a rare Danckerts/Tavernier world map.
This atlas is particularly important not only for its rarity, the majority of maps only known in 4 examples, but also for the inclusion of an unrecorded title leaf. Dr Günter Schilder believes that the inclusion of this UNIQUE TITLE LEAF with a different order of the standard wording i.e. Atlantis Maioris Appendix, a manuscript correction of the typesetting and the inclusion of Jodocus Hondius's name, suggests that the atlas was made up by Jodocus or his widow in mid-1629; the map sheets were presumably assembled from his stock for a prototype Appendix to be displayed in the autumn of 1629 at the Frankfurt bookfair as a continuation of the great Mercator-Hondius atlas. On Jodocus's death on August 18 1629, about 40 copperplates were sold to Blaeu probably by Jodocus's widow. These plates had been part of Jodocus's plan to produce a new modern atlas, less dependent on the Mercator plates that his father had acquired in 1604, and it would therefore make sense that Jodocus considered putting together an assemblage of the maps already cut to engender further interest. In 1630 when Blaeu received the plates he altered the imprint and immediately published them as part of his first atlas, the Atlantis Appendix of 1630, beginning the rise of the Blaeu family to supremacy in the Dutch map business. Henricus Hondius, Jodocus's brother who had taken over the business, was so enraged that he immediately started collaboration with Johannes Janssonius and ordered in March 2nd 1630 for 36 of these plates to be re-engraved (with minor variations); this resulted in the H.Hondius and Janssonius Appendices of 1630 to 1633.
The atlas is bound up in the following order:
Manuscript table of contents, 1 leaf.
Letterpress title Appendix Atlantis Maioris. Per Iodocum Hondium Anno 1630, the capital letter N of Atlantis misprinted as II.
WORLD MAP - DANCKERTS, Cornelis and Melchior TAVERNIER. Charte Universelle de tout le Monde. Paris: Melchior Tavernier, 1628. Engraved world map on two sheets, joined (515 x 910mm). Wide lower margin. (Laid down on modern linen, slight wear along old fold lines.) Shirley 323 (recording only 5 copies);
The Hondius maps are numbered 1-46 in an early-18th-century hand at lower right corner and numbered intermittently in a contemporary hand in roman figures. Maps 7-10 originally formed part of Henricus Hondius's wall-map of Holland, published in 1629, whilst other maps with the Henricus Hondius imprint were prepared by 1629.
1 Mantua Ducatus..Judocus Hondius Excudit. Not in Koeman.
2 Genovesato. Serenissima Reipublicae Genuensis. Me 30 (13).
3 Montisferrati Ducatus..excudit Iudocus Hondius. Not in Koeman.
4 Mediolanum Ducatus. Me 30 (14).
5 Comitatus Hollandiae..1629. H.Hondius. Me 29A [160].
6 Novissima et Accuratissima Brabantiae Ducatus Tabula. Amstelodami, sumptibus Henrici Hondii..1629. Not in Koeman.
7 Insular Dordracensis..1629. H.Hondius. Mounted on linen. Me 29A [162].
8 Rhinolandiae, Amstelandiae...1629. H.Hondius. Mounted on linen. Me 29A [163]
9 Novissima Delflandiae..1629. H.Hondius. Mounted on linen. Me 29A [161].
10 Tabula V. Hollandia..1629. H.Hondius. Mounted on linen. Me 29A [164].
11 Ducatus Geldriae..1629. Me 31A [207].
12 Frisia Occidentalis..Iudocus Hondius excudit. Not in Koeman.
13 Typis Frisiae Orientalis. Me 30 (16).
14 Oldenberg comitatus. Me 30 (17).
15 Episcop. Ultraiectinus..1628. H.Hondius. Me 29A [165].
16 Pomeraniae Ducatus tabula Me 30 (23).
17 Ducatus Holsatiae nova tabula. Me 30 (21).
18 Tabula Russiae Me 30 (2).
19 Meklenburg Ducatus. Me 30 (21).
20 Fluvii Albis nova delineatio..1628. Me 30 (18).
21 Prussiae nova tabula. Me 30 (24).
22 Bohemia. Me 30 (25).
23 Austria Archiducatus. Me 30 (27).
24 Monasteriensis episcopatus. Me 30 (33).
25 Sueviae nova tabula. Me 30 (28).
26 Moravia Marchionatus. Me 30 (26).
27 Coloniensis Archiepiscopatus. Me 30 (35).
28 Westphalia Ducatus Me 30 (32).
29 Paderbornensis Episcopatus. Me 30 (34).
30 Osnabrugensis Episcopatus. Not in Koeman.
31 Nassovia comitatus. Me 30 (31).
32 Limburgensis Ducatus..1603. Me 20A [150].
33 Descriptio Fluminum Rheni. H.Hondius. Me 29A [166].
34 Alpinae seu Foederatae Rhaetiae. Me 30 (29).
35 Tabula Islandiae. Me 30 (1).
36 Terra Sancta..1629 Me 30 (41).
37 Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense. Me 30 (5).
38 Paraguay. Me 30 (9).
39 Venezuela. Me 30 (6).
40 and 43 Guiana. Me 30 (7).
41 Novus Brasiliae typus. Me 30 (8).
42 Peru. Me 30 (12).
44 Freti Magellanici. Me 30 (10).
45 Moluccae Insulae. Me 30 (42).
46 Nova Virginia Tabula. Me 30 (3).
2° (425 x 310mm). 47 double-page engraved maps, versos blank, most with wide margins, on various paper stocks, 5 folding, all on new guards (5 mounted on cloth, 5 with margins or corners restored, 11 with strenghtening and restoration to centre-folds, 2 with slight loss). Contemporary French red morocco covers and spine panels restored and remounted on modern morocco, original covers with gilt arms, spine lettered Appendix Atlantis Maioris Hondii MDCXXX. Later cloth box. Provenance: Honoré d'Agut, (died 1631), Councillor in the Parliament at Aix en Provence (gilt arms on covers. Olivier 1546, Fer 1, taken from a work dated 1623, and ownership ink stamp HDMB on the title, the initials of d'Agut and his wife Marguerite Blégiers, Fer 4); Thomas Anson of Shugborough (armorial bookplate); Trinity House (armorial bookplate).
AN IMPORTANT UNRECORDED EARLY PROTO-APPENDIX ATLAS BY JODOCUS II HONDIUS IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING, the majority of maps assembled in the atlas only known in four examples. Three other similar collections are recorded by Koeman although none appear to have a letterpress title; Maritime Museum Rotterdam (W.A Engelbrecht Collection); British Library, London (formerly J Keuning's copy described in Imago Mundi IV p.65); The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. The maps in this collection comprise 8 sheets with Henricus Hondius imprints dated 1629, 7 of which were published in his 1630 edition of the Atlas sive Cosmographicae, and one of Brabant not recorded in Koeman; 36 maps have Jodocus Hondius imprints, 33 of which accord with those described by Koeman in the Rotterdam collection Me 30; and in addition one map of Limburg first published in 1611, a map of Geldria also issued in Jansson's Appendix 1630 and a rare Danckerts/Tavernier world map.
This atlas is particularly important not only for its rarity, the majority of maps only known in 4 examples, but also for the inclusion of an unrecorded title leaf. Dr Günter Schilder believes that the inclusion of this UNIQUE TITLE LEAF with a different order of the standard wording i.e. Atlantis Maioris Appendix, a manuscript correction of the typesetting and the inclusion of Jodocus Hondius's name, suggests that the atlas was made up by Jodocus or his widow in mid-1629; the map sheets were presumably assembled from his stock for a prototype Appendix to be displayed in the autumn of 1629 at the Frankfurt bookfair as a continuation of the great Mercator-Hondius atlas. On Jodocus's death on August 18 1629, about 40 copperplates were sold to Blaeu probably by Jodocus's widow. These plates had been part of Jodocus's plan to produce a new modern atlas, less dependent on the Mercator plates that his father had acquired in 1604, and it would therefore make sense that Jodocus considered putting together an assemblage of the maps already cut to engender further interest. In 1630 when Blaeu received the plates he altered the imprint and immediately published them as part of his first atlas, the Atlantis Appendix of 1630, beginning the rise of the Blaeu family to supremacy in the Dutch map business. Henricus Hondius, Jodocus's brother who had taken over the business, was so enraged that he immediately started collaboration with Johannes Janssonius and ordered in March 2nd 1630 for 36 of these plates to be re-engraved (with minor variations); this resulted in the H.Hondius and Janssonius Appendices of 1630 to 1633.
The atlas is bound up in the following order:
Manuscript table of contents, 1 leaf.
Letterpress title Appendix Atlantis Maioris. Per Iodocum Hondium Anno 1630, the capital letter N of Atlantis misprinted as II.
WORLD MAP - DANCKERTS, Cornelis and Melchior TAVERNIER. Charte Universelle de tout le Monde. Paris: Melchior Tavernier, 1628. Engraved world map on two sheets, joined (515 x 910mm). Wide lower margin. (Laid down on modern linen, slight wear along old fold lines.) Shirley 323 (recording only 5 copies);
The Hondius maps are numbered 1-46 in an early-18th-century hand at lower right corner and numbered intermittently in a contemporary hand in roman figures. Maps 7-10 originally formed part of Henricus Hondius's wall-map of Holland, published in 1629, whilst other maps with the Henricus Hondius imprint were prepared by 1629.
1 Mantua Ducatus..Judocus Hondius Excudit. Not in Koeman.
2 Genovesato. Serenissima Reipublicae Genuensis. Me 30 (13).
3 Montisferrati Ducatus..excudit Iudocus Hondius. Not in Koeman.
4 Mediolanum Ducatus. Me 30 (14).
5 Comitatus Hollandiae..1629. H.Hondius. Me 29A [160].
6 Novissima et Accuratissima Brabantiae Ducatus Tabula. Amstelodami, sumptibus Henrici Hondii..1629. Not in Koeman.
7 Insular Dordracensis..1629. H.Hondius. Mounted on linen. Me 29A [162].
8 Rhinolandiae, Amstelandiae...1629. H.Hondius. Mounted on linen. Me 29A [163]
9 Novissima Delflandiae..1629. H.Hondius. Mounted on linen. Me 29A [161].
10 Tabula V. Hollandia..1629. H.Hondius. Mounted on linen. Me 29A [164].
11 Ducatus Geldriae..1629. Me 31A [207].
12 Frisia Occidentalis..Iudocus Hondius excudit. Not in Koeman.
13 Typis Frisiae Orientalis. Me 30 (16).
14 Oldenberg comitatus. Me 30 (17).
15 Episcop. Ultraiectinus..1628. H.Hondius. Me 29A [165].
16 Pomeraniae Ducatus tabula Me 30 (23).
17 Ducatus Holsatiae nova tabula. Me 30 (21).
18 Tabula Russiae Me 30 (2).
19 Meklenburg Ducatus. Me 30 (21).
20 Fluvii Albis nova delineatio..1628. Me 30 (18).
21 Prussiae nova tabula. Me 30 (24).
22 Bohemia. Me 30 (25).
23 Austria Archiducatus. Me 30 (27).
24 Monasteriensis episcopatus. Me 30 (33).
25 Sueviae nova tabula. Me 30 (28).
26 Moravia Marchionatus. Me 30 (26).
27 Coloniensis Archiepiscopatus. Me 30 (35).
28 Westphalia Ducatus Me 30 (32).
29 Paderbornensis Episcopatus. Me 30 (34).
30 Osnabrugensis Episcopatus. Not in Koeman.
31 Nassovia comitatus. Me 30 (31).
32 Limburgensis Ducatus..1603. Me 20A [150].
33 Descriptio Fluminum Rheni. H.Hondius. Me 29A [166].
34 Alpinae seu Foederatae Rhaetiae. Me 30 (29).
35 Tabula Islandiae. Me 30 (1).
36 Terra Sancta..1629 Me 30 (41).
37 Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense. Me 30 (5).
38 Paraguay. Me 30 (9).
39 Venezuela. Me 30 (6).
40 and 43 Guiana. Me 30 (7).
41 Novus Brasiliae typus. Me 30 (8).
42 Peru. Me 30 (12).
44 Freti Magellanici. Me 30 (10).
45 Moluccae Insulae. Me 30 (42).
46 Nova Virginia Tabula. Me 30 (3).