JANSSONIUS, JAN: MAP OF KARST, CARNIOLA, ISTRIA AND SLOVENIAN MARK
Inventory number 81
Author: JANSSONIUS, JAN
Original title: Karstia, Carniola, Histria et Windorum Marchia / Gerardum Mercatore Auctore
Publishing year: 1639
Place of publishing and publisher: Amsterdam
Format: 37,5 x 49,5 cm
Technique: Partially coloured copper engraving
As the previous one, this is too one of Mercator's issues of the map "Forum Iulium..". This particular map was published in Jan Janssonius's atlas "Theathre du Monde" of 1639. From the above mentioned map it differs only by its catouche design.
JANSSONIUS, JAN
After Henricus Hondius death, the work was continued by JAN (JOHANN) JANSSONIUS (1588-1664), a Dutch cartographer and publisher who edited as well new editions of the Atlas Mercator-Hondius. In 1633, he became related to Henric Hondius by marriage. As Hondius possessed Mercator's engraving plates, they collaborated on new editions of the Mercator's atlas. In 1633 they published the second edition of the Atlaa Mercator-Hondius. The most important work of Jan Janssonius is the atlas "Theathre du Monde" published in 1639 in three volumes. Due to the fact that it was regularly revised and expanded its 1662 version comprised as much as 11 volumes. In 1694 Peter Schenk (approx. 1645-1715) bought Janssonius's engraving plates.
