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Atlases from a Private Swiss Collection
MERCATOR, Gerard (1512-1594) and Henricus HONDIUS (1596⁄97-1651)
[Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Amsterdam: H. Hondius, 1630.]
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MERCATOR, Gerard (1512-1594) and Henricus HONDIUS (1596⁄97-1651)
[Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Amsterdam: H. Hondius, 1630.]
Expanded edition of one of the most important and significant works in the history of cartography, with nine new maps. Gerard Mercator began publishing his Atlas in 1585, with further continuations by his son Rumold. In 1604, Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) purchased Mercator's plates at auction. He added around 40 maps, including new maps of the Americas, before publishing a new edition of the work in 1606, competing with Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Since many of the Mercator-Hondius maps were more up-to-date, this atlas overtook Ortelius' in significance. By 1630, Henricus Hondius, Jodocus’ second son, was in control, but by this time he was competing with Willem Blaeu who issued his first terrestrial atlas that same year, and Johannes Janssonius took over the publication of the Mercator-Hondius atlas. Van der Krogt 1:107.
Folio (460 x 310mm). Latin text, uncoloured architectural engraved title, hand-coloured engraved double-page portrait of Mercator and Hondius and 164 engraved mapsheets, all but one double-page (engraved title loose, cut-down, worn with some engraved surface abraded, and possibly supplied, lacking at least 3 leaves including the dedication, laudatory poems and Index Tabularum, the laudatory poems on χ1r highly defective, cut-down and mounted with crude repairs with loss of text, Mercator-Hondius double-portrait repaired at gutter with some loss and with edges of margins frayed, two maps with large repaired tears just into image, map 140, Morea, with rust hole to cartographic border with loss of a couple of letters on verso, map 75, flanders, with large marginal repairs using old paper, maps of Holland 79-82 trimmed close just touching borders, variable light browning and discolouration throughout). Contemporary carta rustica (defective with only upper pasteboard remaining).
[Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Amsterdam: H. Hondius, 1630.]
Expanded edition of one of the most important and significant works in the history of cartography, with nine new maps. Gerard Mercator began publishing his Atlas in 1585, with further continuations by his son Rumold. In 1604, Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) purchased Mercator's plates at auction. He added around 40 maps, including new maps of the Americas, before publishing a new edition of the work in 1606, competing with Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Since many of the Mercator-Hondius maps were more up-to-date, this atlas overtook Ortelius' in significance. By 1630, Henricus Hondius, Jodocus’ second son, was in control, but by this time he was competing with Willem Blaeu who issued his first terrestrial atlas that same year, and Johannes Janssonius took over the publication of the Mercator-Hondius atlas. Van der Krogt 1:107.
Folio (460 x 310mm). Latin text, uncoloured architectural engraved title, hand-coloured engraved double-page portrait of Mercator and Hondius and 164 engraved mapsheets, all but one double-page (engraved title loose, cut-down, worn with some engraved surface abraded, and possibly supplied, lacking at least 3 leaves including the dedication, laudatory poems and Index Tabularum, the laudatory poems on χ1r highly defective, cut-down and mounted with crude repairs with loss of text, Mercator-Hondius double-portrait repaired at gutter with some loss and with edges of margins frayed, two maps with large repaired tears just into image, map 140, Morea, with rust hole to cartographic border with loss of a couple of letters on verso, map 75, flanders, with large marginal repairs using old paper, maps of Holland 79-82 trimmed close just touching borders, variable light browning and discolouration throughout). Contemporary carta rustica (defective with only upper pasteboard remaining).
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