Sri Lanka map Insula Ceilan atlas Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius 1634

Title: Insula Ceilan que Incolis Tenarisin dictur.
Description: Antique map of Sri Lanka Ceylon, origin atlas Mercator, Hondius Janssonius 1634. Latin text on verso.

Antique Map from the miniature atlas by *Mercator*, Hondius, and Jansson, (Jansssonius) Amsterdam, 1631(this is an updated edition of the version of 1607).

Origin: Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris À I. Hondio Plurimis Æneis Tabulis Auctus Et Illustratus: Denuo Recognit, Additisque Novis Delineationibus Emendatus" Amsterodami, Ex officina Ioannis Ianssonii, 1634.

Cartographer: Janssonius was born in Arnhem, the son of Jan Janszoon the Elder, a publisher and bookseller.
In 1612 he married Elisabeth de Hondt, the daughter of Jodocus Hondius.
He produced his first maps in 1616 of France and Italy.
In 1623 Janssonius owned a bookstore in Frankfurt am Main, later also in Danzig, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Königsberg, Geneva and Lyon.
Elisabeth Hondius died in 1627 and he remarried Elisabeth Carlier in 1629.
In the 1630s he formed a partnership with his brother in law Henricus Hondius, and together they published atlases as Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius.

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Sheet app.: 9.25 x 7.25 inches. 23.5 x 18.5 cm.
Image app:. 7 x 5.5 inches. 18 x 14 cm.
Condition: very good, nice hand coloring.

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