Bertius’ Miniature Map of Prussia Author(s)_Tim Bryars

Bertius’ Miniature Map of Prussia Author(s)_Tim BryarsThis miniature map of Prussia is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them "undoubtedly the finest set of miniature maps

which in Abbey’s words form “one of the most important and elaborate ventures in nineteenth-century publishing

and numerous illustrations in the text

Thomas Hartwell

65 x 96 cm

contemporary speckled calf

With a plan of the Town

This map of Indonesia and the Philippines was derived from the ‘Neptune Orientale’

laid on linen and folding into stiff red cloth covers

One can sympathise with Scott’s rejection of variorum editions

Pedley does not specify a second state

This map of Scandinavia is from Wyld's New General Atlas

it later passed into the C