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Petrus Bertius - Jodocus Hondius Jr.

Amsterdam, 1616

AFRICA

Original copperplate printed map
9.5 x 13.5 cm.
Fine Handcolor
Map # AF-570
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The previous version of Petrus Bertius' atlas minor, Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum. Libri, included the Cornelis Claesz.- Barent Langenes copperplates, with the Claesz.- Langenes map of Africa of 1597. After the death of Cornelis Claesz in 1609, Jodocus Hondius Jr. (1593-1629) became the new publisher of Bertius' Tabularum. For some reason, Hondius either was not able to acquire the original plates, or he simply decided to issue new maps using a new set of copperplates. He prepared an expanded number of new maps and made them slightly larger in size than the earlier Claesz.-Langenes maps. With the new plates and with revisions to Bertius' text, the work was definitely improved and enjoyed a growing demand from the public, which up to that time had the choice between the Mercator-Hondius Atlas Minor of 1607 and Bertius' earlier Tabularum. This particular map is from an edition of 1616 or 1618.

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). The geography for this map is based on the Jodocus Hondius atlas minor map of Africa of 1607, which in turn was taken from the Hondius 1606 folio-size map of Africa.

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