Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries
Colouring: Coloured
Condition: Very Good
Confirmed: No
Date Acquired: 6 March 2006
Dealers ID No.: M162/5 (STK 1586.01) (STK 1808.01 not sure)
Description: Henricus Hondius, the younger son of the renowned engraver and mapmaker Jodocus Hondius I, played a key role in the family mapmaking business, "In de Wackere Hondt" ("In the Vigilant Dog"), based in Amsterdam. Collaborating with his father, Henricus helped expand and republish Gerard Mercators atlas. Mercator, who had passed away in 1594, left his ambitious world atlas unfinished, which was completed by his son Rumold in 1595 under the title Atlas sive Cosmographicæ meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Another edition followed in 1602, but it was not commercially successful. nNot long after Rumolds death in 1599, Jodocus Hondius I acquired many of the copperplates from the original atlas, which he used in conjunction with his own maps to publish his first atlas in 1606, titled Gerardi Mercatoris, Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes […] excusum in aedibus Iudoci Hondii…. He maintained Mercator's name as the author and listed himself as the publisher, and the work became known as the Mercator-Hondius atlas. nFollowing the death of Hondius I in 1612, Henricus and his brother, Jodocus II, took over the business, continuing to publish the atlas. In 1629, after Hondius II's death, thirty-seven of the copperplates were sold to their competitor, Willem Jansz. Blaeu. He altered the imprint and immediately published them as part of his world atlas, Atlantis appendix sive pars altera, of 1630. nIn response to this publication, Henricus, and his brother-in-law and business partner Johannes Janssonius quickly commissioned new plates like those that had been sold to be engraved. They released their own atlas, Atlantis maioris appendix, sive pars altera. which included a double hemisphere world map ( #82). There are six states of the map. nState 1: 1630 ( #82)nState 2: 1641 with no imprintnState 3: 1641 with Janssonius's imprint added nState 4: 1663 ( #223) nState 5: 1666 no geographical changes and featured in Janssonius's Atlas MaiornState 6: 1666 ''this map'', with geographical improvementsnThis map is the sixth and last state. It was issued by Janssonius's heirs following his death in 1664. In contrast to the previous versions of the map there is no representation of Terra Australis Incognita. Instead it was updated to include Abel Tasman's discovery of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and the coastline of New Zealand in 1642. It also shows Maarten Gerritsz de Vries 1643 discoveries north of Japan, including Straet de Vries., t'land van Eso, C.Eroen, Y son. nIn the top corners are the portraits of Julius Caesar and Claudius Ptolemy, and in the bottom corners are portraits of Henricus's father, Jodocus Hondius, and his mentor, Gerard Mercator,
Engraver: Janssonius, Johannes (1588-1664)
First published: Atlantis Maioris Appendix, sive pars Altera Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, 1630
Mapmaker: Hondius, Henricus (1597-1651)
Notes: Purchase details
Price: A24,000 plus gst
Primary Category: World
Purchase Reference: Inv. 2988
Rarity: R2 Very rare – one or two copies appear on the market
References: Johannes Keuning, The History of an Atlas: Mercator-Hondius, Imago Mundi 4 (1947): 3762nSimon Dewez, The Printed World II (Sydney: Gowrie Galleries,1994 ), pg 6, map 29. Simon Dewez, The Printed World (Sydney: Gowrie Galleries, 1997), pg 2, map 17.
Shirley ID #: 336 Mapping the World
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: 1666, Sixth
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