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Following the 1612 edition of Petrus Bertius’ ‘Caert Thresoor’ which had appeared in Frankfurt the plates came into the possession of Johannes Cloppenburg. This is presumed to have been before 1616 as in that year Jodocus Hondius Junior re-issued Bertius’ text with an entirely new expanded series of 220 copperplate maps. Bertius was the librarian of the University of Leyden and related to Hondius by marriage. The maps were slightly larger in size and the book was dedicated to King Louis XIII of France.
A rival publication was the miniature Ortelius atlas whose last edition had been in 1612. Another was the ‘Atlas Minor’ published by Jodocus Hondius senior and Johannes Janssonius from 1607. Following Hondius senior’s death in 1612 its publication was continued by his widow and sons in partnership with Janssonius and issues appeared in 1613 and 1614. Since the following edition did not appear until 1620 at the hands of Janssonius alone it appears that the partnership broke up sometime after 1614. This was quite probably the impetus for Hondius and Bertius to work together on a new edition of the ‘Caert Thresoor’.
There was a flourish of editions from 1616 to 1618 when they abruptly ended. In 1618, the year of publication of this volume, Bertius was appointed Cosmographer to Louis XIII and spent the rest of his life in Paris. Sometime after the 1618 editions the plates came into the possession of Willem Jansz. Blaeu who in 1637 published an exceedingly rare atlas entitled ‘Atlas Minor sive Tabulæ Geographicæ’. It survives in only three known complete examples.
This example of the 1618 French edition is the Christian Hammer copy, from the largest nineteenth century library in Scandinavia. Hammer (1818-1905) was a court jeweller to the Swedish royal family and real estate agent who amassed a library of 150,000 books. They were dispersed in nine auctions in Stockholm from 1906-19. Provenance: The Christian Hammer Library copy, Stockholm, with bookplate inside the front cover; manuscript ownership inscription opposite the title signed Henry Marebody, Stockholm, 1642; private English collection since 1977. Koeman Lan 13A; Van der Krogt 342:01C; Sabin 5014; Shirley BL T.Bert 2b.
A rival publication was the miniature Ortelius atlas whose last edition had been in 1612. Another was the ‘Atlas Minor’ published by Jodocus Hondius senior and Johannes Janssonius from 1607. Following Hondius senior’s death in 1612 its publication was continued by his widow and sons in partnership with Janssonius and issues appeared in 1613 and 1614. Since the following edition did not appear until 1620 at the hands of Janssonius alone it appears that the partnership broke up sometime after 1614. This was quite probably the impetus for Hondius and Bertius to work together on a new edition of the ‘Caert Thresoor’.
There was a flourish of editions from 1616 to 1618 when they abruptly ended. In 1618, the year of publication of this volume, Bertius was appointed Cosmographer to Louis XIII and spent the rest of his life in Paris. Sometime after the 1618 editions the plates came into the possession of Willem Jansz. Blaeu who in 1637 published an exceedingly rare atlas entitled ‘Atlas Minor sive Tabulæ Geographicæ’. It survives in only three known complete examples.
This example of the 1618 French edition is the Christian Hammer copy, from the largest nineteenth century library in Scandinavia. Hammer (1818-1905) was a court jeweller to the Swedish royal family and real estate agent who amassed a library of 150,000 books. They were dispersed in nine auctions in Stockholm from 1906-19. Provenance: The Christian Hammer Library copy, Stockholm, with bookplate inside the front cover; manuscript ownership inscription opposite the title signed Henry Marebody, Stockholm, 1642; private English collection since 1977. Koeman Lan 13A; Van der Krogt 342:01C; Sabin 5014; Shirley BL T.Bert 2b.
BERTIUS, Petrus
Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum Libri septem. In quibus Tabulae omnes gradibus distinctae, descriptiones accuratae, caetera supra priores editiones politiora, Auctioraq. ad Christianissimum Galliae & Navarrae Regem Ludovicum XIII
Jodocus Hondius Jr., Amsterdam, 1618
Oblong octavo (135 x 215 mm.), 7 parts in one volume, eighteenth century half vellum, marbled paper boards. Red morocco gilt title label to spine. Engraved title dated 1618, 7 divisional half titles, 220 miniature maps and plans engraved by Pieter van den Keere, Salomon Rogier, Jodocus Hondius Jr and others, With eighteenth century endpapers. pp. [16], 829, [9]. Latin title with French text throughout. One or two minor manuscript marginalia, light damp staining to last few leaves. Map no. 4 is a repeat of the first world map.
Stock number: 1971
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