"Asia", Hondius, Jodocus
Subject: Asia
Period: 1635 (circa)
Publication: Historia Mundi
Color: Hand Color
Size:
7.6 x 6 inches
19.3 x 15.2 cm
Small version of Hondius' important map of the continent and the East Indies. Korea appears as a long island and an exaggerated Gulf of Cambay distorts the Indian subcontinent. The extreme eastern part of the map shows a bit of the coastline of America with the label Americae Pars separated from Asia by the Anian Fretum. The map is decorated with a pair of strapwork cartouches for the title and scale of miles. English text on verso, published in Historia Mundi by Thomas Cotes for Michael Sparke between 1635-39.
References: Van der Krogt (Vol. III) 8000:351; Yeo #21.
Condition: A+
Very dark impression on a bright sheet with some printer's ink residue in plate.
