Nova et Accurata Iaponiae Terrae esonis ac Insularum adjacentium
| Reference: | MS5033 |
| Author | Johannes JANSSONIUS |
| Year: | 1658 |
| Zone: | Japan & Korea |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 545 x 450 mm |
€1,600.00
| Reference: | MS5033 |
| Author | Johannes JANSSONIUS |
| Year: | 1658 |
| Zone: | Japan & Korea |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 545 x 450 mm |
€1,600.00
Description
Showing Japan and part of China. First published in 1644 in Janssonius' Novus Atlas. From 1657 Janssonius (Jan Jansen) supplemented the folio-edition of his atlas with several maps.
He took the opportunity to enlarge the scale of this new map of Japan. Older maps depicted Ezo much larger than it is after Vries, in 1643, mistook Kunashiri and Urup to be parts of Ezo. This map shows Urup, which Vries called Compagnijs Landt, to be much larger than it was depicted before.
Jansonius used the additional space to enlarge the scale and add placenames. However, he made many mistakes in the placenames and depicted many places at a wrong position, for example he called Iedo Iede and placed it to far to the north.
This example, printed without text, was very likely included in an atlas published by the heirs of Janssonius towards 1680. In 1694 the plate was bought by Valck & Shenk, who put their address on it.
Joannes Janssonius (Arnhem, 1588-1664), son of the Arnhem publisher Jan Janssen, married Elisabeth Hondius, daughter of Jodocus Hondius, in Amsterdam in 1612. After his marriage, he settled down in this town as a bookseller and publisher of cartographic material. In 1618 he established himself in Amsterdam next door to Blaeu’s book shop. He entered into serious competition with Willem Jansz. Blaeu.. His activities not only concerned the publication of atlases and books, but also of single maps and an extensive book trade with branches in Frankfurt, Danzig, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Koningsbergen, Geneva, and Lyon. In 1631 he began publishing atlases together with Henricus Hondius. In the early 1640s Henricus Hondius left the atlas publishing business completely to Janssonius. Competition with Joan Blaeu, Willem’s son and successor, in atlas production prompted Janssonius to enlarge his Atlas Novus finally into a work of six volumes, into which a sea atlas and an atlas of the Old World were inserted. After the death of Joannes Janssonius, the shop and publishing firm were continued by the heirs under the direction of Johannes van Waesbergen (c. 1616-1681), son-in-law of Joannes Janssonius. The copperplates from Janssonius’s atlases were afterwards sold to Schenk and Valck.
“Janssonius's work resembles a navigation chart due to the rhumb lines and compass roses it contains. The mileage chart gives the detail on the increasing scale of the Mercator projection.
Campbell (1967) writes that it was based on the chart "compiled by Maerten de Vries on his voyage of 1643" and goes on to explain that the depiction of Staten Eyland and Compagnies Land was a greatly exaggerated depiction of two of the Kuril islands. Also, Hokkaidō, here shown as Landt van Eso, appears to be connected to the Asian continent.
This map of Japan appears for the first time in the third volume of the German language Novus Atlas and was later incorporated in his Atlas Maior from 1675. Janssonius died in 1664, and his heirs continued the business until 1676 when the atlas inventory was sold to Abraham Wolfgang along with some of the copperplates which were later sold on to Schenk and Valck. A second auction of the remaining copperplates took place in 1694.
It is not certain exactly when Schenk and Valck acquired the copperplate for this map, the rough estimated date being c.1700. Schenk and Valck erased Janssonius's imprint and replaced it with their own. The map was then sold either loose or for inclusion in a number of composite atlases over the next three or four decades.." (Hubbard "Japoniae Insulae – The Mapping of Japan", p. 203).
Copper engraving, magnificent contemporary colour, in excellent condition.
Bibliografia:
Hubbard "Japoniae Insulae – The Mapping of Japan", pp. 203-204, n. 30; Walter “Japan a Cartographic vision”, p. 193, n. 57; Cortazzi p. 70.
Johannes JANSSONIUS (1588-1664)
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Johannes Janssonius, more commonly known to us as Jan Jansson, was born in Arnhem where his father was a bookseller and publisher (Jan Janszoon the Elder). In 1612 he married the daughter of the cartographer and publisher Jodocus Hondius, and then set up in business in Amsterdam as a book publisher. In 1616 he published his first maps of France and Italy and from then onwards he produced a very large number of maps, perhaps not quite rivalling those of the Blaeu family but running a very close second in quantity and quality. From about 1630 to 1638 he was in partnership with his brother-in-law, Henricus Hondius, issuing further editions of the Mercator/Hondius atlases to which his name was added. On the death of Henricus he took over the business, expanding the atlas still further, until eventually he published an 11-volume Atlas Major on a scale similar to Blaeu's Atlas Major.
The first full edition of Jansson's English County Maps was published in 1646 but some years earlier he issued a number of British maps in the Mercator/Hondius/Jansson series of atlases (1636-44); the maps were printed from newly engraved plates and are different from the later 1646 issue and are now rarely seen (see Appendix B for further details).
In general appearance Jansson's maps are very similar to those of Blaeu and, in fact, were often copied from them, but they tend to be more flamboyant and, some think, more decorative.
After Jansson's death his heirs published a number of maps in an Atlas Contractus in 1666 and later still many of the plates of his British maps were acquired by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valck, who published them again in 1683 as separate maps.
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Johannes JANSSONIUS (1588-1664)
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Johannes Janssonius, more commonly known to us as Jan Jansson, was born in Arnhem where his father was a bookseller and publisher (Jan Janszoon the Elder). In 1612 he married the daughter of the cartographer and publisher Jodocus Hondius, and then set up in business in Amsterdam as a book publisher. In 1616 he published his first maps of France and Italy and from then onwards he produced a very large number of maps, perhaps not quite rivalling those of the Blaeu family but running a very close second in quantity and quality. From about 1630 to 1638 he was in partnership with his brother-in-law, Henricus Hondius, issuing further editions of the Mercator/Hondius atlases to which his name was added. On the death of Henricus he took over the business, expanding the atlas still further, until eventually he published an 11-volume Atlas Major on a scale similar to Blaeu's Atlas Major.
The first full edition of Jansson's English County Maps was published in 1646 but some years earlier he issued a number of British maps in the Mercator/Hondius/Jansson series of atlases (1636-44); the maps were printed from newly engraved plates and are different from the later 1646 issue and are now rarely seen (see Appendix B for further details).
In general appearance Jansson's maps are very similar to those of Blaeu and, in fact, were often copied from them, but they tend to be more flamboyant and, some think, more decorative.
After Jansson's death his heirs published a number of maps in an Atlas Contractus in 1666 and later still many of the plates of his British maps were acquired by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valck, who published them again in 1683 as separate maps.
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