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£250 Jan Jansson 1646 Ref: 3117wmg
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53x42 cm

MIDDELSEXIÆ cum | HERTFORDIÆ | COMITATU: | Midlesex & Hertford | Shire.
Amstelodami | Apud Joannem Jansonium
Copper engraving by Dutch engraver and publisher, Jan Jansson (1588-1664) issued in his Ioannis Ianssonii Novus Atlas from 1646. Following the publication of a volume of county maps of England and Wales by his rival mapmaker and publisher Jan Blaeu in 1645, Jansson produced his version just one year later matching the superb engraving standard of his rival Blaeu. There were a number of editions of Jansson's work in various languages between 1646 and 1667. Until 1658 the atlas was issued in four or five volumes with the British maps in the fourth volume, later editions expanded to eleven volumes. In 1681 Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valck had acquired the plates and began re-issues with their imprint as loose sheets sold separately and in 1714, 1715 and 1724 in Atlas Anglois, ou description general de l'Angleterre...
This example is from the first Latin edition of 1646 and is in unusually bright original hand colour. The verdigris used in the green pigment has burned the paper in places and some holes are evident when held to the light and there are some tape repairs verso over some of the weaker areas. A printers crease left of top centrefold.
Hodson Printed Maps of Hertfordshire ref. 12(i)

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