Author: Hondius, Jodocus / Mercator, Gerhard
Publisher: published in Amsterdam.
Year: c1606 [1583]
Size: 35.5 x 48.7 cm
Reference: Leporace, Asia N 59/10...; Quirino p.80; Koeman
India Orientalis
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Description
original hand-colour copper engraving, French text on verso.
RARE map in great original colour, from ‘Atlas Maior’, published in Amsterdam from 1606 onwards, French edition. A re-issue of Mercator’s ‘Tabulae geographiae’ and one of the finest early maps of the region. Early 1600s, upon his return to Holland, Hondius bought Mercator’s plates, adding 36 of his own to reissue the ‘Atlas’.
Condition
centrefold as issued, tattering along lower margin, stains in margins not affecting plate. verso: text ‘L’Indie Orientale’
