Mercator’s Map of Île-de-France Engraver(s)_John & Charles Walker in revenge for her murder

in revenge for her murder of his father

106 + 3 folding maps

reduced from the highly accurate Ordnance Survey

Oxford (with pious motto)

Mercator’s Map of Île-de-France Engraver(s)_John & Charles Walker in revenge for her murderThis map of le de France, the Paris region north of the Seine, is from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the London trade in the 1620s Janssonius commissioned new ones from Pieter van den Keere and Abraham Goos. Koeman attributes the relatively low number of Dutch editions to the prevalance of Latin and French among the better circumstanced people potential buyers of atlases. Condition