"Comitatus Hollandia", Mercator/Jansson
Subject: Netherlands
Period: 1630 (published)
Publication: Atlas Minor
Color: Hand Color
Size:
6.9 x 4.8 inches
17.5 x 12.2 cm
Splendid small map depicting today's province of North Holland. Decorated with strapwork title cartouche and distance scale and surrounded by an intricate strapwork frame. 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) #3400:363.
Condition: A
A dark impression on a bright sheet with a small worm hole in the image.
