Mercator, Gerard, and Jodocus and Henricus Hondius

Folio (495 x 315mm.), half-title, engraved title, 104 double-page engraved maps, the title and maps all coloured by a contemporary hand, contemporary vellum panelled in gilt with a central strapwork cartouche, yapp edges, [Koeman II, Me 35; van der Krogt 1:312], engraved title repaired and remargined, a few other instances of generally marginal repair and restoration, binding repaired, all by James Brockman, lacks ties

François Graverol of Nîmes (1636–1694), lawyer and collector of rare coins and manuscripts, one of the first members of the Academy of Nîmes, ownership inscription on title; John Gordon (according to Wardington Catalogue), bookplate lost; un-named owner, sale in these rooms, 14 November 2002, lot 342, Maggs Bros, London, for Lord Wardington; his sale in these rooms, 10 October 2006, lot 287

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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THE WARDINGTON COPY, RARE; THIS COPY NOT SEEN BY VAN DER KROGT, WHO LOCATES ONLY FIVE COPIES. This appendix, with fifty-nine new maps, was produced to update the 1628 French Mercator–Hondius atlas, so that it would be uniform with the expanded 1633 edition (see previous lot, and note). In this way, owners of the 1628 edition only had to purchase the Appendice rather than a whole new complete atlas. The new maps are very much a product of the intense rivalry between the houses of Blaeu and Hondius, started after Blaeu’s own Appendix of 1630.