Bertius’ Miniature Map of Nassau
SKU: 8023Title:
Bertius’ Miniature Map of Nassau
Date of publication:
1616
Printed Measurement:
9.7 x 13.5 cm
Colour:
modern
Mapmaker(s):
Engraver(s):
Jodocus Hondius II
Descriptio Comitatus Nassovi Cattimeliboci
Copper engraving, each 9.7 x 13.5 cm, modern hand-colour, trvial spotting, Latin text on verso. A miniature map of Nassau, from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator-Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them "undoubtedly the finest set of miniature maps ever printed" (Miniature Antique Maps p. 96).