BY JODOCUS HONDIUS (1563-1612), FIRST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY

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(3) A HANDCOLOURED COPPER-ENGRAVING INDIA ORIENTALIS
BY JODOCUS HONDIUS (1563-1612), FIRST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY
With two circular cartouches, framed, unexamined out of frame
35.5 cm high x 48.5 cm. wide
Together with a pair of handcoloured copper-engravings Carte du Golfe de Bengale and Royaume du Grand Mogol, by Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), 18th century, 29 cm. high x 36 cm. wide (plate) and 29 cm. high x 35.5 cm. wide (plate), both framed, unexamined out of frame (3)

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Jodocus Hondius acquired the old copperplates of the Mercator atlas and started to re-issue them. This map was first published in 1606 as one of the 37 new maps engraved for Hondius' expanded Dutch edition of his Atlas sive Cosmographicae or the Mercator-Hondius atlas as it is more commonly called.

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