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Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae sive Britannicar Insularum Descriptio - Janssonius J., 1630.



Antique map of the British Isles, by J. Janssonius, oriented to the West.
Rare map with the portraits of James the First, Henry Prince of Wales and Princess Anne of Denmark.

Date of this print: 1630
Date of the first edition (first state by P. Kaerius): 1604

Copper engraving
Size: 34 x 49cm (13.3 x 19.1 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Old coloured, small reinforcement at lower centrefold. 
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 1, 5000:1B; Shirley (BI to 1650), 374.

From: Atlantis Maioris Appendix, sive Pars Altera, ... Amsterdam, J. Janssonius, 1630. (Van der Krogt 1, 1:202)

Pieter van den Keere produced only one atlas, his Germania Inferior and was forced to sell many of his copperplates to other publishers. Jan Jansson acquired the elegant plate of Keere's 1604 British Isles map following Ortelius' outline and reissued it in 1621 with his own imprint in place of Keere's. The same plate was to be used by Jansson in the first edition of his Atlantis Maioris Appendix in 1630 but copies of this map are only rarely found. (Shirley)

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Item number: 11164
Price: 2800 Euro

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