1628 Jodocus Hondius & Gerard Mercator Antique Map of Africa - Beautiful

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Seller: searching01 ✉️ (5,959) 100%, Location: Ivanhoe, VIC, AU, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 374776260308 1628 Jodocus Hondius & Gerard Mercator Antique Map of Africa - Beautiful. After the death of Jodocus Hondius the Elder in 1612, work on the two atlases, folio and miniature, was carried on by his widow and sons, Jodocus II and Henricus, and eventually in conjunction with Jan Jansson in Amsterdam.
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Nova Africae Tabula. Auctore Jodoco Hondio Excusum in aedibus Auctoris Amsterodami.

Cartographer : - Hondius , Jodocus 1563-1612
  • Date: - 1628
  • Size: - 22 1/2in x 17 1/4in (615mm x 530mm)
  • Ref#: - 35626
  • Condition: - (A+) Fine Condition

Description: This original beautifully hand coloured copper plate engraved antique map of Africa by Jodocus Hondius, after Gerard Mercator, was published in the 1628 Latin edition of Mercators Atlas Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi This is a beautiful map with original hand colouring, heavy age toned paper with a deep impression. Beautiful map.

General Definitions: Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable Paper color : - Off white Age of map color: - Original Colors used: - Yellow, green, blue, pink General color appearance: - Authentic Paper size: - 22 1/2in x 17 1/4in (615mm x 530mm) Plate size: - 20in x 15in (510mm x 385mm) Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

Imperfections: Margins: - None Plate area: - None Verso: - None

Background: Being part of the Mediterranean world, the northern coasts of the African continent as far as the Straits of Gibraltar and even round to the area of the Fortunate Isles (the Canaries) were reasonably well known and quite accurately mapped from ancient times. In particular, Egypt and the Nile Valley were well defined and the Nile itself was, of course, one of the rivers separating the continents in medieval T-O maps. Through Arab traders the shape of the east coast, down the Red Sea as far as the equator, was also known but detail shown in the interior faded into deserts with occasional mountain ranges and mythical rivers. The southern part of the continent, in the Ptolemaic tradition, was assumed to curve to the east to form a land-locked Indian Ocean. The voyages of the Portuguese, organized by Henry the Navigator in the fifteenth century, completely changed the picture and by the end of the century Vasco da Gama had rounded the Cape enabling cartographers to draw a quite presentable coastal outline of the whole continent, even if the interior was to remain largely unknown for the next two or three centuries. The first separately printed map of Africa (as with the other known continents) appeared in Munster\'s Geographia from 1540 onwards and the first atlas devoted to Africa only was published in 1588 in Venice by Livio Sanuto, but the finest individual map of the century was that engraved on 8 sheets by Gastaldi, published in Venice in 1564. Apart from maps in sixteenth-century atlases generally there were also magnificent marine maps of 1596 by Jan van Linschoten (engraved by van Langrens) of the southern half of the continent with highly imaginative and decorative detail in the interior. In the next century there were many attractive maps including those of Mercator/Hondius (1606), Speed (1627), Blaeu (1 630), Visscher (1636), de Wit (c. 1670), all embellished with vignettes of harbours and principal towns and bordered with elaborate and colourful figures of their inhabitants, but the interior remained uncharted with the exception of that part of the continent known as Ethiopia, the name which was applied to a wide area including present-day Abyssinia. Here the legends of Prester John lingered on and, as so often happened in other remote parts of the world, the only certain knowledge of the region was provided by Jesuit missionaries. Among these was Father Geronimo Lobo (1595-1678), whose work A Voyage to Abyssinia was used as the basis for a remarkably accurate map published by a German scholar, Hiob Ludolf in 1683. Despite the formidable problems which faced them, the French cartographers G. Delisle (c. 1700-22), J. B. B. d\'Anville (1727-49) and N. Bellin (1754) greatly improved the standards of mapping of the continent, improvements which were usually, although not always, maintained by Homann, Seutter, de Ia Rochette, Bowen, Faden and many others in the later years of the century. Hondius , Jodocus 1563-1612 Jodocus Hondius 1594-1629 (son) Henricus Hondius 1587-1638 (son) Jodocus Hondius, one of the most notable engravers of his time, is known for his work in association with many of the cartographers and publishers prominent at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. A native of Flanders, he grew up in Ghent, apprenticed as an instrument and globe maker and map engraver. In 1584, to escape the religious troubles sweeping the Low Countries at that time, he fled to London where he spent some years before finally settling in Amsterdam about 1593. In the London period he came into contact with the leading scientists and geographers of the day and engraved maps in The Mariner\'s Mirrour, the English edition of Waghenaer\'s Sea Atlas, as well as others with Pieter van den Keere, his brother-in-law. No doubt his temporary exile in London stood him in good stead, earning him an international reputation, for it could have been no accident that Speed chose Hondius to engrave the plates for the maps in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine in the years between 1605 and 1610. In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Mercator\'s Atlas which, in spite of its excellence, had not competed successfully with the continuing demand for the Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. To meet this competition Hondius added about 40 maps to Mercator\'s original number and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages, still under Mercator\'s name but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius series. The following year the maps were reengraved in miniature form and issued as a pocket Atlas Minor. After the death of Jodocus Hondius the Elder in 1612, work on the two atlases, folio and miniature, was carried on by his widow and sons, Jodocus II and Henricus, and eventually in conjunction with Jan Jansson in Amsterdam. In all, from 1606 onwards, nearly 50 editions with increasing numbers of maps with texts in the main European languages were printed. Summaries of these issues are given under the entry for Gerard Mercator. Jodocus Hondius the Elder * 1588 Maps in The Mariner\'s Mirrour (Waghenaer/Ashley) * 1590 World Map in two hemispheres illustrating Drake\'s circumnavigation * c. 1591-92 Hiberniae novissima descrzptio: Boazio\'s map of Ireland: Engraved by Pieter van den Keere * 1595 Europe (wall map): with Pieter van den Keere * 1598 World and the Continents * 1599 Maps for Caert Thresoor (Langenesi Cornelis Claesz), with Pieter van den Keere * 1602-03 - 12 English County maps for William Smith (\'anonymous maps\') * 1605 Ptolemy\'s Geographia (Mercator) 1618-19 Re-issued * 1605-10 Maps for The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (Speed) * 1606 World Atlas (Mercator/Hondius series) (see under \'Gerard Mercator\' for further detail) * 1607 Atlas Minor (Mercator/Hondius series) (see under \'Gerard Mercator\' for further detail) * 1608 World Map on Mercator\'s projection Jodocus Hondius II * 1612-21 (Mercator) Atlas Minor 5 editions published in co-operation with Jan Jansson the Elder (see under Gerard Mercator (Atlas Minor) for further detail) * 1613 Map of Scandinavia * 1616 View of London (Cl. J. Visscher) * 1616 Tabularum geographicarum (Petrus Bertius) Miniature world atlas (8vo): edition (with new maps) of the Caert Thresoor published in 1598-99 1618 Re-issued in Latin and French * 1617-18 World Map: double hemisphere The first map to show Tierra del Fuego as an island as a result of the discoveries made on the Schouten/Le Maire voyage of 1615-17. * c. 1624 World Map on Mercator\'s projection * 1629 Atlas (without title or text) 42 maps, mostly by Hondius, not included in the Mercator/Hondius editions Henricus Hondius * (1606) Mercator\'s Atlas (Mercator/Hondius/Jansson) 1613, 1619 Editions published by the widow of Jodocus Hondius the Elder, and Jodocus II and Henricus. 1623-335 editions published by Henricus alone. 1633-41 5 editions in conjunction with Jan Jansson. Please note all items auctioned are genuine, we do not sell reproductions. A Certificate of Authenticity (COA) can be issued on request. What is an Antique Map

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  • Condition: (A+) Fine
  • Date Range: 1600-1699
  • Type: World Atlas
  • Format: Atlas Map
  • Printing Technique: Copper Plate
  • Year: 1628
  • Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
  • Cartographer/Publisher: Jodocus Hondius
  • Country/Region: Africa

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