Janssonius’ Map of Cumbria & Westmorland Binding_contemporary calf trivial spotting

trivial spotting

It shows the Kensington Hippodrome in Notting Hill

it was first published with a modest 26 maps in 1544

is considered to be his last significant work before his retirement

Janssonius’ Map of Cumbria & Westmorland Binding_contemporary calf trivial spottingCumbria & Westmoria. Vulgo Cumberland & Westmorland Joannes Janssonius II (1588 1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked on a revised edition of the Mercator Hondius atlas (which was known as the Atlas Novus from 1638 onwards). The Hondius Janssonius map publishing business traced its roots back to Gerardus Mercator. Mercator coined the term atlas (after the wise, mythical, Mauritanian king rather than the weary titan)