| Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburch | |
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Amsterdam, 1630 AFRICÆ | nova Tabula | Auct J. Hondio.
Original
copperplate printed map
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This uncommon map is from the Amsterdam publisher Jan Cloppenburch's reduced-size edition of the Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, first published in 1606. The Cloppenburch Atlas Minor was of a convenient size for users of its day, somewhat larger than Hondius and Janssonius' Atlantes Minores of 1607 and 1628 respectively and reasonably priced when compared with folio-size atlases of this period. This is a finely engraved, attractive map of Africa. The copperplate that produced it was engraved by Pieter van den Keere. While the title refers to Jodocus Hondius as the source for this map (Auct J. Hondio.), it is not at all similar to the elder Jodocus Hondius' 1606 and 1607 maps. In fact, this map bears close conformity to Willem Blaeu's 1617 map and Jodocus Hondius Jr.'s maps of 1619 and 1623. Much of the interior, including the hyd rography and the placenames, are directly based on Blaeu's 1617 map of Africa. The outline of Africa is also more closely aligned to Blaeu. One notable exception is an excessively wide bay where the unnamed Spirito Santo River empties into the Indian Ocean. The Cloppenburch version of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas Minor was only published in 1630, 1632, and 1636. Cloppenburch was either forced out of business or Johannes Janssonius bought his copperplates, as the plates later appeared in a 1673 edition of Atlas by Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, the son-in-law of Janssonius. A second edition of this atlas appeared in 1676 in Dutch and Latin. This map also appeared in 1676 in an edition of Phillip Cluver's Introductionis in Universam Geographicam. This particular map may have been from this 1676 edition of Cluver's Introductionis in Universam Geographicam, or from the Atlas Portatif of 1734 by Henri du Sauzet.
Betz, Map #65.
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