South-western Counties of England and Wales. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius the younger first published his Atlas Minor as a reduced scale version of Mercator's World Atlas. The work included a regional map of the south-western English and Welsh counties, and was issued up to 1621, when the printing plates were sold on. In 1628 the Dutch publisher and mapseller Jan Jansson revived the concept of a miniatrure world atlas with his own version of the Atlas Minor, with new plates engraved by Peter van den Keere and Abraham Goos. This work included a map of the south-western English and Welsh counties, and was issues in several editions up to 1651. Some 60+ years later the printing plates from Jansson's Atlas Minor re-appeared, now owned by the Leiden publisher Pieter van der Aa. He used them to illustrate a number of works targetting the French market, which involved him changing titles and other details to the French language. In this state the maps appeared in part 4 of L'Atlas Soulage de son Gros et Pesant Fardeau (c1714), in Nouveau Petit Atlas de La Grande Bretagne (c1710), and in Vues Des Villes, Edifices & Autres Choses Remarquables de La Grande Bretagne & d'Irelande. Their final use was in van der Aa's 27 volume work, La Galerie Agreable du Monde (1729) for which the maps have an elaborate added border. On van der A's death in 1733 the plates were acquired by Covens & Mortier who continued to advertise them (unchanged) for individual sale. The maps are uncommon in any of the above states. This example is from L'Atlas Soulage...