A Beautiful Original Color Example of the Rare Bertius-Tavernier map:   Carte de | L' AFRIQVE | Corrigeé, et augmenteé, deßus toutes | les aultres cy deuant faictes par | P. Bertius.

Original copperplate printed map
38 x 50 cm.
Original Color
Map # AAF-259       
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Petrus Bertius (1565-1629) was born in Flanders but as a refugee settled first in Amsterdam and then in Leiden, where he was a professor of mathematics and a librarian at the University of Leiden.  Afterwards, he moved to Paris, where in 1618 he became cosmographer to King Louis XIII of France.  Bertius died in Paris in 1629. Through marriage, Bertius was related to both Pieter van den Keere (his sister married Van den Keere) and Jodocus Hondius (Van den Keere's sister married Hondius). 

While in Paris, Bertius (1565-1629) likely came into frequent contact with Tavernier. Melchior Tavernier (1594-1665) was one of the most important mapsellers and publishers in Paris in the first half of the seventeenth century.   While Tavernier cites Bertius as the source for this map, it is a clear copy of the Jodocus Hondius maps of 1619 and 1623, like the Bertius 1624 map. As on the 1619 Hondius map, the geography for the 1623 map is copied from Willem Blaeu's folio-size map of 1617 which was based on a reduction of Blaeu's wallmap of 1608. It is not known whether the information on this map came to Tavernier via Bertius, who was related to Hondius, or if Tavernier simply obtained an example of the Hondius map and copied it. 

This particular map is the second state of 1640.  The first state is exceedingly rare.

Betz, Map # 63.  Not in Norwich.

Very Fine Condition.  A very attractive map in rich, original color.