"Barbaria", Mercator/Jansson
Subject: Northern Africa
Period: 1630 (published)
Publication: Atlas Minor
Color: Hand Color
Size:
7.4 x 5.6 inches
18.8 x 14.2 cm
Charming map of the whole of North Africa and the famed Barbary coast. There are two large insets at bottom: Carthaginensis Sinus with the city of Tunis, and a map of the Nile Delta. The map is richly engraved with place names, mountains, and numerous spurious lakes in the Sahara Desert. The map is adorned with strapwork title and scale cartouches. French text on verso.
This map was re-engraved for Jan Jansson's editions of the Atlas Minor, published in 5 editions between 1628-48. The copperplates for the original Atlas Minor editions published by Hondius were sold to parties in England between 1621-25. Jansson commissioned Pieter van den Keere and Abraham Goos to engrave new plates, which were close copies of the original editions.
References: Van der Krogt (Vol. III) #8610:352.1.
Condition: B+
A crisp impression with very light toning and marginal soiling.
