Ducatus Holsatiae Descriptio Novissima. Holstein Janssonius 1666

Title: Ducatus Holsatiae Descriptio Novissima.

Description: Old hand colored map of Holstein with the Old German cities Rendsborg, Stade, Lubeck, island Feme (Fehman) a decorative title cartouche in Latin, and German mile cartouche.
Attractive nice card decorated with a compass rose and merchant boats on the sea.

Janssonius' maps are similar to those of Blaeu, and he is often accused of copying from his rival, but many of his maps predate those of Blaeu and/or covered different regions.
By 1660, at which point the atlas bore the appropriate name "Atlas Major", there were 11 volumes, containing the work of about a hundred credited authors and engravers.
It included a description of "most of the cities of the world" (Townatlas), of the waterworld (Atlas Maritimus in 33 maps), and of the Ancient World (60 maps).
The eleventh volume was the Atlas of the Heavens by Andreas Cellarius. Editions were printed in Dutch, Latin, French, and a few times in German.

Mapmaker Johannes Janssonius (1588, Arnhem – buried July 11, 1664, Amsterdam) (born Jan Janszoon, in English often incorrect Jan Jansson) was a Dutch cartographer and publisher who lived and worked in Amsterdam in the 17th century.

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Sheet app.: 23.25 x 19.5 inches. 59 x 49.5 cm.
Image app: 21.5 x 17.5 inches. 55 x 44 cm.
Condition: Attractive map in very good.

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