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Mercator’s Isle de France

Mercator’s Map of Île-de-France

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Title:
Mercator’s Map of Île-de-France

Date of publication:

  • 1630

    • Printed Measurement:

  • 13.5 x 19 cm

    • Publisher:

  • Joannes Janssonius

    • Colour:

  • modern

    • Mapmaker:

  • Gerardus Mercator

    • Engraver:

  • Abraham Goos

    • This map of Île-de-France, the Paris region north of the Seine, 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, 13.5 x 19 cm, modern hand-colour, Dutch text on verso.

    References

    Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Me 197. Read less