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C1646
Insularum Britannicarum Acurata Delineatio ex Geographicis Conatibus Abrahami Ortelii.
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Scarce Dutch map of Roman and ancient Britain, oriented with west to top, from Jansson’s Atlas Major. England and Wales are labelled as Britannia Superior, and further divided into the later Roman provinces of Prima (the South), Secunda (Wales), Flavia … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Insularum Britannicarum Acurata Delineatio ex Geographicis Conatibus Abrahami Ortelii.
Date:
C1646
Mapmaker:
Engraver:
Pieter Van den Keere
(1571 –
1646?)
Condition:
In good condition, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
510mm
x 390mm
Paper Size:
578mm
x 523mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1646
Description:
Scarce Dutch map of Roman and ancient Britain, oriented with west to top, from Jansson’s Atlas Major.
England and Wales are labelled as Britannia Superior, and further divided into the later Roman provinces of Prima (the South), Secunda (Wales), Flavia Caesariensis (the Midlands), and Maxima Caesariensis (the North). Scotland is labelled using both its early and later Roman titles, as Britannia Inferior and the province of Valentia. Hibernia (Ireland), the Orcades, and the Hebrides are also labelled. Principal cities and towns are picked out in red, as are the two Roman era walls built by Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, here labelled as Severan. Original celtic tribal regions are also labelled, as well as the site that Caesar allegedly landed in his invasion of 55 BC. The map is embellished with a large baroque strapwork cartouche in the bottom left corner, containing the name of the publisher, the title, and a dedication to Abraham Ortelius. The figures on either side of the cartouche are representations of ancient Britons.
From Atlas novus
Johannes Janssonius (1588 - 1664)
Janssonius also known as Jan Jansson was a Dutch cartographer, the son of a printer and bookseller. In 1612 married into the cartographically prominent Hondius family of map makers. Following his marriage he moved to Amsterdam where he worked as a book publisher. It was not until 1616 that Jansson produced his first maps, most of which were heavily influenced by Blaeu. In the mid 1630s Jansson partnered with his brother-in-law, Henricus Hondius, to produce his important work, the eleven volume Atlas Major. About this time, Jansson's name also begins to appear on Hondius reissues of notable Mercator/Hondius atlases. Jansson's last major work was his issue of the 1646 full edition of Jansson's English Country Maps. Following Jansson's death in 1664 the company was taken over by Jansson's brother-in-law Johannes Waesberger. Waesberger adopted the name of Jansonius and published a new Atlas Contractus in two volumes with Jansson's other son-in-law Elizée Weyerstraet with the imprint 'Joannis Janssonii haeredes' in 1666. These maps also refer to the firm of Janssonius-Waesbergius. The name of Moses Pitt, an English map publisher, was added to the Janssonius-Waesbergius imprint for maps printed in England for use in Pitt's English Atlas.
