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Mercator’s Berry

Mercator’s Map of Berry

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Title:
Mercator’s Map of Berry

Date of publication:

  • 1630

    • Printed Measurement:

  • 14.6 x 18.3 cm

    • Publisher:

  • Joannes Janssonius

    • Colour:

  • modern

    • Mapmaker:

  • Gerardus Mercator

    • Engraver:

  • Abraham Goos

    • This map of the province of Berry in central France is from the Atlas Minor.

    The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the London trade in the 1620s Janssonius commissioned new ones from Pieter van den Keere and Abraham Goos. Read more

    Koeman attributes the relatively low number of Dutch editions to the prevalance of Latin and French among ‘the better circumstanced people - potential buyers of atlases’.

    Condition & Materials

    Copper engraving, 14.6 x 18.3 cm, later hand-colour, light waterstain, Dutch text on verso, map printed upside down (so headline is at the foot of the map, inverted).

    References

    Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Me 197. Read less