Description
Copper engraved map of the area around Cologne by H. Hondius. With one cartouche and a mileage scale. Showing the River Rhine between Koblenz and Wesel. Centred on the town of Cologne. Without the text on verso.
Condition
One tear right to lower centrefold backed, upper right margin strengthened.
Cartographer
Jodocus Hondius was born 1563 in Wakken (West Flanders). He became a globe maker and map engraver. In 1593 he set up his business in Amsterdam after he spent several years in London. He was one of the most important engravers of his time and engraved maps for van den Keere, Waghenaer and Speed. Hondius bought the plates of Mercator in 1604, added around 40 maps and published the expanded Mercator-Atlas first 1606 still under Mercator's name. After his death 1612 in Amsterdam, the business was carried out by his sons Jodocus II and Henricus.
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Jodocus Hondius: Coloniensis Archiepiscopatus.
Antique map of Cologne, North Rhein-Westphalia. Printed in Amsterdam by H. Hondius circa 1630.
Germany - Hondius, Jodocus - Coloniensis Archiepiscopatus