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C1616
Asia.
Mapmaker:
Petrus Bertius (1565 - 1629)
Scare early miniature map of Asia from Petrus Bertius (1565-1629) ‘Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum Libri Septem’, published by Jodocus Hondius, Bertius’s brother in-law. This miniature map was made fourteen years after the formation of the VOC (Dutch East India Company). Together … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Asia.
Date:
C1616
Mapmaker:
Petrus Bertius (1565 - 1629)
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Copper engraving hand coloured
Image Size:
135mm
x 95mm
Frame Size:
410mm
x 380mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1616
Description:
Scare early miniature map of Asia from Petrus Bertius (1565-1629) ‘Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum Libri Septem’, published by Jodocus Hondius, Bertius’s brother in-law.
This miniature map was made fourteen years after the formation of the VOC (Dutch East India Company). Together the company would dominate the international spice trade for the next 300 years.
References:
Mapmaker:
Petrus Bertius (1565 –1629) was a Flemish theologian, historian, geographer and cartographer. Bertius published much in mathematics, and historical and theological works, but he is now best known as a cartographer with his edition of the Geographia of Ptolemy (based on Mercator’s edition from 1578), and for his atlas.
In 1618 Bertius was given an appointment as a cosmographer to the court of Louis XIII. His career in cartography had started in 1598, with the publication of a Latin edition of a miniature atlas Caert Thresoor by Barent Langenes, which he translated as Tabulae contractae (1600). His Theatrum geographiae veteris had commended him to King Louis.
