Catégorie : Asia

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M176 Description: Johannes Janssonius was born into a family of publishers and booksellers, gaining experience in book printing from a young age. In 1612, he married Elisabeth Hondius, the daughter of the renowned mapmaker Jodocus Hondius I ( #80, #212, #253, #272)…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 2/10/2024 Date Acquired: 5/9/2016 Description: Sebastian Münster, professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel, published a Latin edition of Claudius Ptolemys Geographia in 1540. This edition included twenty-seven Ptolemaic maps and twenty-one modern maps, among them this map, titled India Extrema, XIX, nova tabula. Unlike…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 2/10/2024 Date Acquired: 8/3/2017 Description: Around 1584, Pieter van den Keere fled religious persecution in Ghent (now Belgium) and settled in London. His sister, Colette van den Keere ( #113), who also relocated to London, married Jodocus Hondius ( #18, #80, #82, #114, #123, #126, #253…