Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries?
Colouring: Coloured
Condition: Very Good
Confirmed: No
Dealers ID No.: M162
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 Amsterodami. 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 also in 1630 which included this double hemisphere world map.nThe map features a faint depiction of the coastline of Terra Australis Incognita, with the place name "Beach" appearing at the top of a promontory south of Java a name derived from the writings of Marco Polo. Unlike many contemporary maps, this one is notable for its early representation of Australia's northern coastline. The expansion of Dutch East India Company (VOC) trade in the East Indies spurred continued exploration of waters south and east of Java, as the company sought new resources and trading routes. Evidence of Dutch exploration, extending from New Guinea to Australia, is seen in multiple coastal place names on this map, including "Keerweer," shown as part of New Guinea.nIn 1606, Dutch navigator Willem Jansz., aboard his ship Duyfken, became the first documented European to make contact with Australia. Jansz did not recognise the Torres Strait, which separates New Guinea from Australia, and mistakenly charted the Australian coast as an extension of New Guinea. He mapped part of the western side of what is now known as Cape York and the Gulf of Carpentaria, making several landfalls and encountering local Aboriginal communities. The name "Keerweer," meaning "turn back" in Dutch, was given to the location where Jansz decided to return to Java after a violent encounter with the indigenous people.nThe early seventeenth century marked a period of Dutch exploration along the Australian coast following Janszs voyage. This included the 1623 expedition of VOC explorer Jan Carstensz. to the Gulf of Carpentaria. His journey introduced place names such as Valsche Caep ("False Cape"), Hooghe land ("High Land"), and R. Batavia ("Batavia River"), all of which appear on this map.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,nFollowing this 1630 edition of this map, five other states are known:nState 1: 1630, this mapnState 2: 1641, with no imprintnState 3: 1641, and Janssonius's imprint added nState 4: 1663 ( #126) featured in Janssoniuss Atlas Contractus and Van Loon's sea atlasesnState 5: 1666 no geographical changes and featured in Janssonius's Atlas MaiornState 6: 1666 and geographical improvements ( #123)
Engraver: Hondius, Henricus (1597-1651)
First published: Atlantis Maioris Appendix, sive pars Altera Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, 1630
Mapmaker: Hondius, Henricus (1597-1651)
Notes: Purchase details
Other states: see below
Primary Category: World
Rarity: R4 Common – often seen on the market
References: Johannes Keuning, The History of an Atlas: Mercator-Hondius, Imago Mundi 4 (1947): 3762nSimon Dewez, The Printed World (Sydney: Gowrie Galleries,1994 ), pg 6, map 29. Simon Dewez, The Printed World II (Sydney: Gowrie Galleries, 1997), pg 2, map 17.
Shirley ID #: 336 Mapping the World
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: 1630
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