Acquired From: Leen Helmink
Colouring: Uncoloured
Condition: Good
Date Acquired: 13/3/2021
Dealers ID No.: 21246
Description: This engraving first appeared in the cosmographical section of CaertThresoor, the compact, Dutch atlas published in 1598 under the imprint of Barent Langenes and distributed through the Amsterdam publisher Cornelis Claesz. Designed as an affordable, portable alternative to large-format atlases, Caert-Thresoor brought together terrestrial, maritime, and cosmographical material for both scholarly and general audiences.nMost plates were engraved by Pieter van den Keere (View Record (#285), View Record (#383)), with additional contributions by Jodocus Hondius (including the present plate, #294,View Record (#295)). The authorship of some maps, such as the East Indies plate (View Record (#388)), remains uncertain and may involve either engraver.nThis small double-hemisphere world map presents the Earth divided into eastern and western hemispheres and belongs to the cosmographical component of the atlas, complementing its terrestrial geography. Framed by decorative strapwork, the map reflects contemporary conceptions of the world as part of a divinely ordered cosmos. At the top, nestled between the hemispheres, is the inscription IEHOVA, a Latinised form of the Hebrew name for God, reinforcing the maps theological framing.nThe engravers name, Jodicus Hondius, appears at the foot of the plate. The map is numbered 17 in the upper right corner, indicating its sequence within the atlas, and marked B in the lower right, the printers signature, denoting the first leaf of section B. The design later served as the basis for revised states issued by Claes Jansz. Visscher in the 1649 work Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri quatuor denuo recogniti (1649), where it reappeared as Iehova (View Record (#293)).
Engraver: Hondius, Jodocus
First published: Caert-Thresoor, Middelburg: Barent Langenes, 1598
Image Size (cm): 12.5×8.5
Mapmaker: Langenes, Barent (fl. 1598-1609)
Other states: Dutch, French, Latin, and German editions between 1598 and 1650
Price: Purchased with entry #294
Primary Category: World
Purchase Reference: Email 13 March 2021
Rarity: R1 Extremely rare – occasionally seen on the market
References: Peter van der Krogt, ed., Koemans Atlantes Neerlandici, vol. 3 (t Goy-Houten: HES & De Graaf, 1997), 383-384 (no. 341:06).nGünter Schilder, Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica, vol. 7 (Lochem: Canaletto, 2003), 462463.
Sheet size (cm): 18×11.5
Shirley ID #: 182 Mapping the World
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: First
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