"Barbaria [on sheet with] Carthaginensis Sinus [and] Aegyptus", Mercator/Hondius

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 dark impression on a lightly toned sheet with a damp stain in the left blank margin.