Copperplate

The Atlas Minor was first published in 1607 by Jodocus Hondius the younger, as a reduced size version of the large Mercator/Hondius world atlas. From 1607-21 Hondius issued 9 editions in 3 languages - Latin, French and German. In 1628 Jan Jansson issued his own edition of the atlas, with new plates engraved by Abraham Goos and Pieter van den Keere. Between 1628 and 1651 he also issued 9 editions of his Atlas Minor, again with text in the same 3 languages. In 1630 a third version of the Atlas Minor was published by the Amsterdam Bookseller Joan Cloppenburg. The plates were mainly engraved by Pieter van den Keere, and the work was issued in 2 French and 1 Latin editions between 1630 and 1636. Cloppenburg's plates were subsequently purchased by Jan Jansson and in 1673 were published, in a final edition after his death, by his successor Joannes Janssonius van Waesberghe. This map of south-westerly English and Welsh counties has no text to the verso, and no title above the top border. It is from the atlas's final issue by van Waesberghe. Original colour. A few spots.