Janssonius, Johannes

Folio (502 x 330mm.), German text, engraved allegorical title, coloured by hand, 64 double-page engraved maps (extra illustrated with 8 further maps), all hand-coloured in outline, contemporary Dutch vellum gilt with yapp fore-edges, covers centre and corner arabesques within foliate panels, gilt edges, spine gilt in seven compartments, [Van der Krogt, 1:427C (6); Skelton County Atlases 66]

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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A FINE COPY. In 1646 Janssonius published his atlas of the British Isles, in response to his great rival Joan Blaeu publishing his atlas of England and Wales in the previous year. The work consisted of 48 maps of England and Wales together with three maps of Scotland, and five of Ireland. Jansson began work on the atlas in around 1640, for which he already had some 18 plates available. In 1644 he published 11 new English county maps in a Dutch appendix to the Atlas: but in spite of this lead his volume was not ready when Blaeu's appeared in 1645 (without however any maps of Scotland or Ireland). The majority of the maps in the atlas are based upon John Speed with ten copied from Joan Blaeu. 

This copy is extra illustrated with eight maps; a map of Middlesex and Hertfordshire; Yorkshire; and six maps of Scotland and its islands. 

List of extra maps

1. Midldelsexiae cum Hertfordiae comitatu, Midlesex & Hertford Shire.

2. Ducatus Eboracensis. Anglice Yorkshire.

3. [Scotland] Scotiae Provintiae; Inter taurn fluvium et sptentrionales oras Angliae.

4. [Scotland] Scotiae Provinciae intra Flumen Taum...

5. [Scotland] Extimae Scotiae pars Septentrionalis, in qua Provinciae...

6. [Scotland] Lorna, Knapdalia, Cantire, Iura, Ila, Glota et Buthe Insulae.

7. [Scotland] Tabula Leogi et Haraiae ac Skiae vel Skianae Insularum.

8. [Scotland] Lochabria omnesq, Insulae versus Occidentem sitae ut Visto Mussa alicaeque.