Slavonia Croatia Bosnia Balkans Mercator Hondius 1606

Title: SLAVONIA CROATIA BOSNIA Cum DALMATIAE Partie.

Description: Slavonia Croatia Bosnia , old antique map of the Balkans with Slavonia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and a part of Dalmatia.
A nice title cartouche in the upper right corner and a German mile scale, three goats of arms, the Republic of Venice, (the Lion of St. Mark) the Hapsburg Monarchy, and the Ottoman Empire.

Left lower corner Gerardum Mercatorem.
Gerardus Mercator, Original name Gerard De Cremer.(1512-1594)
Mercator’s family had moved from Germany to Flanders shortly before he was born. He was educated in Hertogenbosch.
Under the guidance of Gemma Frisius, the leading theoretical mathematician in the Low Countries, who was also a physician and astronomer, Mercator mastered the essentials of mathematics, geography, and astronomy.
In 1534 Mercator married Barbara Schellekens, by whom he had six children.
Mercator then began to execute a series of publications intended to describe the creation of the world and its subsequent history.
This Atlas—the term still used to indicate a collection of maps—was never fully realized.
In 1569, as the first section, he published a chronology of the world from the Creation to 1568. He then published 27 of the maps originally prepared by the Greek geographer Ptolemy, with corrections and commentary in 1578, under the title Tabulae Geographicae C. Ptolemei ad mentem autoris restitutae et emendatae. The next part of the Atlas, consisting of a set of new maps covering France, Germany, and the Netherlands, came out in 1585, with maps of Italy, “Sclavonia” (now the Balkan countries), and Greece following in 1589.
Another printing followed in 1602, and further maps were added in a later edition of 1606, usually called the Mercator–Hondius Atlas.

Cartographer: Jodocus Hondius
Jodocus Hondius (Latinized version of his Dutch name: Joost de Hondt) (14 October 1563 – 12 February 1612), sometimes called Jodocus Hondius the Elder to distinguish him from his son Jodocus Hondius II, was a Flemish / Dutch engraver, and cartographer. He is best known for his early maps of the New World and Europe, for re-establishing the reputation of the work of Gerard Mercator, and for his portraits of Francis Drake. He helped establish Amsterdam as the center of cartography in Europe in the 17th century.

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Size:
Sheet app.: 57 x 49.5 cm. 22.25 x 19.5 inches.
Image app: 46 x 36 cm. 18.25 x 14 inches.
Condition: Very good map for a more than 400 year old engraving, nice hand coloring, marginal and crack restoration to centerfold. (not visible in image)

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