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Amsterdam, (1619) 1633 Attractive, original Color example of Hondius' map of Africa: AFRICÆ | nova Tabula. | Auct. Hen. Hondio 1631 Original copperplate
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This highly decorative map of Africa is part of a set of four continent maps prepared by Jodocus Hondius Jr. (1593-1629) in 1619 as separately issued maps, that is not part of an atlas. Upon Jodocus' death in 1629, the copperplate that produced this map passed to his brother, Henricus. Henricus issued this map in its third state in his Atlantis Maioris Appendix and then in later Hondius-Janssonius atlases. For these editions, Henricus removed the four decorative borders, replaced Jodocus' name with his own, and changed the date to 1631. This map is from a German edition of the Hondius atlas of 1633. There is German text on the verso with a signature of "C" and page numbers 9 and 12. The map continued to be published to c.1680 in a fourth and a fifth state. The geography of Africa is significantly different than in their father's 1606 map of Africa. The geography for this map is copied from Willem Blaeu's folio-size map of 1617 with the Cuama River originating in mountains and not in the Sachaf Lacus. Overall, however, it was based on a reduction of the Willem Blaeu wall map of 1608. Reference: Betz # 58.3. Betz, Richard L., with Penelope W. Betz. The Mapping of Africa: A Cartobibliography of Printed Maps of the African Continent to 1700. 't Goy-Houten, The Netherlands: HES & De Graaf Publishers, 2007. Very Fine Condition. |
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