Territorium Tridentinum

Carta geografica del territorio di Trento edita ad Amsterdam da Hondius e contentuta nel "Gerardi Mercatoris Atlantis Pars Tertia", il celebre atlante di Mercator aggiornato ed integrato da Hondius e Janssonius. Edizione latina. Incisione in rame, coloritura coeva, in ottime condizioni. Carta geografica del territorio di Trento edita ad Amsterdam da Hondius e contentuta nel "Gerardi Mercatoris Atlantis Pars Tertia", il celebre atlante di Mercator aggiornato ed integrato da Hondius e Janssonius. Edizione latina. 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 Blaeu’s book shop. He entered into serious competition with Willem Jansz. Blaeu. His activities not only concerned the publication of atlases and books, but also of 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 completely to Janssonius. Competition with Joan Blaeu, Willem’s 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. 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. The copperplates from Janssonius’s atlases were afterwards sold to Schenk and Valck. Incisione in rame, coloritura coeva, in ottime condizioni. Cfr.