Antwerp 1593

AFRICAE VERA FOR= | MA, ET SITVS. 

Original copperplate engraving map.
Colored
32.5 x 45 cm (to outer neatline)
Map # AFS-056
$ Sold
 

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Only one atlas was published by the De Jode family: Speculum Orbis Terrarum, issued by Gerard de Jode in 1578, and then re-issued by his son Cornelis in 1593 as Speculum Orbis Terrae.  This is the De Jode family's second map of Africa as issued in 1593 by Cornelis (1568-1600).  His father, Gerard, evidently was intending to issue a revised and expanded edition of his 1578 Speculum Orbis Terrarum, but his death in 1591 prevented this from happening. Upon Gerard's death, Cornelis finished the atlas, adding ten new copperplates including this map of Africa.

The atlas was not a financial success as very few copies were sold in comparison to Ortelius' Theatrum. However, it appears to have received favorable comments from contemporaries such as Petrus Montanus (Koeman 1967-71, II: 206). After Cornelis' premature death in 1600, Jan Baptist Vrients obtained the plates of the atlas. Vrient's widow later sold the plates to Moretus, although there was no further use of the plates. Consequently, all maps by the De Jode family are quite rare.

Betz, Map #27.  Norwich, Map #19.

Fine, with a bottom centerfold separation repaired on verso.