Tuscia Episcopatus

Map of Tuscia taken from the Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. De novo multis in locis emendatus novisque tabulis auctus studio Judoci Hondij first published in Amsterdam in 1630.

Based on the large Gerard Mercator map of 1589.

This was the first edition to utilize the newly-engraved plates, most of which were engraved by Pieter van den Keere for Johannes Cloppenburgh. The Cloppenburgh edition offers the largest maps featured in any of the reduced versions of the Mercator-Hondius atlas.Two other Cloppenburgh editions were issued in 1632 and 1636, after which the atlas was suppressed, most likely by Johannes Janssonius, who had a competing miniature atlas. In 1673, this atlas was resurrected by Johannes Janssonius's son-in-law, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, who expanded it. The atlas’ 180 maps offer comprehensive coverage of the world as it was then known to Europeans. It includes fine regional maps for Asia, Africa, and the Americas, roughly following the outline in the folio-sized Mercator-Hondius Atlas.

Copperplatte with fine later hand colour, very good condition.