When he acquired the Mercator plates, he added 36 maps, many engraved by him, and released the atlas under Mercator’s name, helping to solidify Mercator’s reputation posthumously. One of Hondius’ most successful commercial ventures was the reprinting of Mercator’s atlas. For example, from 1605 to 1610, Hondius engraved the plates for John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine. Hondius worked in partnership with Cornelis Claesz, a publisher, and maintained his ties to contacts in Europe and England. In 1593 Hondius returned to Amsterdam, where he lived for the rest of his life. This network gave Hondius access to manuscript charts and descriptions which he then translated into engraved maps. His engraving and nautical painting skills introduced him to an elite group of geographic knowledge seekers and producers, including the navigators Drake, Thomas Cavendish, and Walter Raleigh, as well as engravers like Theodor De Bry and Augustine Ryther. Hondius also engraved the globe gores for Emery Molyneux’s pair of globes in 1592 Wright plotted the coastlines. There, he worked for Richard Hakluyt and Edward Wright, among others. Hondius moved to London in 1584, fleeing religious persecution in Flanders. Born in Wakken but raised in Ghent, the young Jodocus worked as an engraver, instrument maker, and globe maker. His work did much to establish Amsterdam as the center of cartographic publishing in the seventeenth century. Jodocus Hondius the Elder (1563-1612), or Joost de Hondt, was one of the most prominent geographers and engravers of his time. African Islands, including Madagascar (66).Minor loss of paper at lower right corner, far from printed image. The present example shows very early signs of the crack which required the replacement of the map several years later. Includes several sea monsters, a sailing ship and other decorative embellishments. An elongated Northwest Coast of America is shown, along with Anian. South America is shown in its potato configuration, as is the case in the first edition of this map. A massive Terra Australis Nondum Cognita is shown with equally bold conjecture in the Southern Hemisphere. Both the Northwest & Northeast Passages are shown quite boldly, although based completely upon myth and conjecture. The coastline of South America includes the extra bulge, which would be removed in state 2 (1585). On the verso, Ortelius mentions in his Catalogus Auctorum that he also apparently had access to and drew upon the world maps by Peter ab Aggere from Mechelen, Sebastian Cabotus from Venice, Laurentius Fries from Antwerp, Jacobus Gastaldi, Gemma Frisius from Antwerp, Guicciardinus from Antwerp, Doco ab Hemminga Frisius, and Orontius Finæus from Paris. The map is drawn from Gerard Mercator's 1569 wall map of the World, Gastaldi's 1561 world map and Diego Gutierrez' portolan map of the Atlantic. The present example is from the earliest state of the map, which can be identifed by the signature of the engraver, Fransciscus Hogenbergus (Franz Hogenberg) below the Cicero quote (center right) and the lack of any evidence of cracking in the lower left part of hte plate. Ortelius' world map is one of the most important and widely disseminated maps of the second half of the 16th Century, forming the base model for a number of other contemporary maps. Nice old color example of the first edition of Ortelius' famous world map.
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