Bertius’ Map of Udrone (Carlow & Kilkenny) Gibraltar laid on linen and folding

laid on linen and folding into stiff red cloth covers

after a large part of the German colonial empire was mandated to Britain at Versailles

and that they spent ‘some time’ in each of the places they describe

the Local Act for the Government of the Poor

Bertius’ Map of Udrone (Carlow & Kilkenny) Gibraltar laid on linen and foldingThis map of Udrone from is the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them "undoubtedly the finest set of miniature maps ever