Bertius, Petrus:: Media

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Bertius, Petrus: : Media

Copper engraving, 9.4 x 13.4 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso. Miniature map of County Meath.

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

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Bertius, Petrus : Media

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616, First edition.

100 x 135mm. Coloured. A couple of tiny wormholes in the margin.

Hondius engraved new plates for his edition of the Bertius atlas 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum', which he sold alongside the Mercator 'Atlas Minor'.

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