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Paris (1624) 1646
The Rare
Bertius Map of Africa :
Carte de | L'
AFRIQVE | Corrigeé et augmenteé | dessus toutes les aultres | cy
deuant faictes L'anneé | A° 1646.
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This map is not often seen for sale. Petrus Bertius' map is closely based on the Jodocus Hondius Jr. maps of Africa of 1619 and 1623, published in Amsterdam as separate maps, but without the decorative borders. Like the two Hondius maps, the geography for the Bertius map is copied from Willem Blaeu's folio-size map of 1617, which was based on a reduction of Blaeu's wall map of 1608. 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). This map dated 1624 is presumed to have existed, though no examples are known. The second state, dated 1640, is known in one example. This particular map is the third state of 1646. The third state appeared in two editions of Pierre Mariette's Theatre geographique de France in 1650 and 1653. The map also appeared in D'Avity's Description Generale. Betz, Map #61. Not in Norwich.
Very Fine
Condition. A very
attractive map. |
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