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Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae
Johannes Janssonius
ca 1700 (?)
This appears to have been removed from an atlas, and is unfortunately pasted down. I have removed it from the frame, which is included in the price.
With ornamental title cartouche, a cartouche with the scale of map, 2 windroses and a ship. A map of Venezuela with adjacent islands (Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada and many others).
Joannes Janssonius (Arnhem, 1588-1664), son of the Arnhem publisher Jan Janssen, married Elisabeth Hondius, daughter of Jodocus Hondius, in Amsterdam in 1612. After his marriage, he settled down in this town as a bookseller and publisher of cartographic material. In 1618, he established himself in Amsterdam next door to Blaeus bookshop. He entered into serious competition with Willem Jansz. Blaeu when copying Blaeus Licht der Zeevaert after the expiration of the privilege in 1620. His activities concerned the publication of atlases, books, single maps, and an extensive book trade with branches in Frankfurt, Danzig, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Koningsbergen, Geneva, and Lyon. In 1631, he began publishing atlases together with Henricus Hondius.
In the early 1640s, Henricus Hondius left the atlas publishing business to Janssonius. Competition with Joan Blaeu, Willems son and successor, in atlas production, prompted Janssonius to enlarge his Atlas Novus finally into a work of six volumes, into which a sea atlas and an atlas of the Old World were inserted. Other atlases published by Janssonius are Mercators Atlas Minor, Horniuss historical atlas (1652), the townbooks in eight volumes (1657), Cellariuss Atlas Coelestis and several sea atlases and pilot guides.
After the death of Joannes Janssonius, the shop and publishing firm were continued by the heirs under the direction of Johannes van Waesbergen (c. 1616-1681), son-in-law of Joannes Janssonius. Van Waesbergen added Janssonius's name to his own.
In 1676, Joannes Janssoniuss heirs sold by auction all the remaining Atlases in Latin, French, High and Low German, as well as the Stedeboecken in Latin, in 8 volumes, bound and unbound, maps, plates belonging to the Atlas and Stedeboecken. The copperplates from Janssoniuss atlases were afterwards sold to Schenk and Valck.
Print size: approx 49 x 37,5cm. Paper size: 61 x 53cm. Frame size: 70 x 61cm.PLEASE CHECK IMAGES FOR CONDITION
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