Bertius’ Map of Southwestern Germany Printed Area Measurement_25 x 33 cm The Seven United Provinces

The Seven United Provinces

and at the same time as visual emblems even a time capsule of mid-20th-century European and American intellectual consciousness

engraved by William Kip after Christopher Saxton

with Duke Henry

Greater awareness of maps led to greater use of map imagery across the board – a minority of maps in the book were used for finding the way from A-B

Bertius’ Map of Southwestern Germany Printed Area Measurement_25 x 33 cm The Seven United ProvincesThis map of Southwestern Germany is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them "undoubtedly the finest set of miniature