Bertius’ Miniature Map of Prussia Author(s)_Tim Bryars laid on linen and folding

laid on linen and folding into stiff red cloth covers

which in Abbey’s words form “one of the most important and elaborate ventures in nineteenth-century publishing

Thomas Hartwell

65 x 96 cm

This map of Scandinavia is from Wyld's New General Atlas

Bertius’ Miniature Map of Prussia Author(s)_Tim Bryars laid on linen and foldingThis miniature map of Prussia 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 maps