Regional Maps

47x36 cm

NORTHUMBRIA, CUMBERLANDIA, ET DUNELMENSIS EPISCOPATUS.
Amstelodami Sumptibus Henrici Hondy.
Map of Northern England  published from 1636 by Henricus Hondius and by Jan Jansson from 1638 to 1646. The map was first issued in 1595 by Rumold Mercator and attributed to his late father, Gerard Mercator, who died a year earlier. The plate has been re-worked for this edition,  the shading in the sea has been erased from the plate, the title cartouche has been re-engraved to a new design and the imprint amended.
This example, with French text verso, is from the 1639 edition of Jansson's Atlas Novus.
A professional repair to a split at the bottom centrefold and some tears to the top margin are visible when held up to a backlight but it remains a good looking map in original hand colour.