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1636. [Wales] Cambriae Typus Auctore Humfredo Lhuydo . . .

  • [Wales]  Cambriae Typus Auctore Humfredo Lhuydo . . .

[Wales] Cambriae Typus Auctore Humfredo Lhuydo . . . information:

Year of creation: 
Resolution size (pixels): 
 5110x4652 px
Disk Size: 
 3.66897MiB
Number of pages: 
 1
Place: 
 Amsterdam

Print information. Print size (Width x height in inches):
Printing at 72 dpi 
  70.97 х 64.61
Printing at 150 dpi 
 34.07 х 31.01
Printing at 300 dpi 
 17.03 х 15.51

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[Wales]  Cambriae Typus Auctore Humfredo Lhuydo . . .

Second state of this finely engraved map of Wales, with new decorative cartouche.

The map is derived from the Welsh cartographer Humphrey Lhuyd's 1568 map, the first modern map of Wales. The map was revised and made slightly smaller in Mercator/Hondius atlases engraved by Pieter van den Keere c. 1636-42. This example is the re-engraved second state from the Mercator/Hondius/Jansson atlas Hondius Nouvel Atlas. It was re-issued in a third state for Jansson's Atlas Major and later editions. Earlier examples were also included in editions of the Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1606-33.

The map is decorated with a fine oval cartouche garlanded with clusters of fruit, a quarter compass-rose in the lower left corner, and a solitary sea monster.

Henricus Hondius (1597-1651) was a Dutch engraver and mapmaker, a member of a prominent cartographic family. His father, Jodocus Hondius, was also an engraver and geographer. While working with his father, Henricus was instrumental in the expansion and republishing of Mercator’s atlas, first published in 1595 and republished by Hondius in 1606.   

Upon his father’s death in 1612, Henricus and his brother, Jodocus the Younger, took over the business. He set up his own shop in 1621, where he continued to release new editions of the Mercator atlas. Later, he partnered with his brother-in-law, Jan Janssonius, in continuing to expand and publish Mercator’s atlas, which would become known as the Mercator-Hondius-Janssonius atlas. Born and based in Amsterdam, he died there in 1651.


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Item information:

Year of creation:
Size:
5110x4652 px
Disk:
3.66897MiB
Number of pages:
1
Place:
Amsterdam
Author:
Henricus Hondius. Jan Jansson.
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