Natolia,Asia Minor

Mercator, Gerard./ Janssonius van Waesberge Petrus Kaerius/ Pieter Van der Keere. Natolia, Asia minor Natolia sive Asia Minor. Amsterdam, J Janssonius van Waesberge 1676
Copper engraved map of Natolia from. Janssonius Van Waesberge's edition of Gerard Mercator's Atlas after the Clopenberg edition. Original outline colour; verso blank. Under passepartout.
The map published by Joannes Janssonius van Waesberg is a new rendering of the Clopenberg edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor
published in 1673 & 76 under the title Nieuwe en beknopte uytbeeldinghe en Vertooninge der gantscher Aerdbodem in Amsterdam. The son-in-law of Janssonius , he inherited the business and the plates of his father in law. and would continue the publishing passing it his own sons. Good impression. bright original outline colour, evenly toned; light dampstain to upper right corner; old ink number to upper margin. Under passepartout.

The "Atlas Minor" of Gerhard Mercator appears in various formats, the first published by Jodicus Hondius in 1607 with plates he most likely engraved himself.
Thereafter there appeared a number of editions.
In 1628 Johannes Janssonius published a new series of editions, the plates engraved by Petrus Kaerius and Abraham Goos.
Both of these were small format atlases in the tradition of that published by Langenes.
In 1630 Johannes Cloppenburg published a French edition in a somewhat larger size, followed by this Latin edition in 1632. The plates were in the main engraved by
Petrus Kaerius.

Cloppenburg published the Altas at his own expense "sumptibus"as the imprint states. There was one more edition in 1636 with French text.
Due to thier larger size the maps from the Cloppenberg editions have more information, than those of Hondius and Janssonius, and are considered by some scholars as a true reduction of the maps of Mercator, as they appear in the folio Atlas.

Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge (1616,1681) was a Dutch bookseller, printer, and map publisher active in Utrecht (1642-1660), Breda (1647-1651), Amsterdam (1657-1680), and Gdańsk (1676).
The son of Rotterdam bookseller and printer Jan van Waesberghe (1588-1633), he continued the business of his father-in-law, cartographer and bookseller Jan Jansson (1588-1664), in Amsterdam; he also worked in partnership with other booksellers, including Elizaeus Weyerstraten and his widow, as well as with map publisher Joan Blaeu. From 1675 or 1676, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge established the firm Officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana together with his sons, a second Johannes Janssonius van Waesberghe (1644-1705) and Gillis Janssonius van Waesberghe (1646-1708), both of whom succeeded him.
Keoman:Me206. Zacharakis 2270/1493 186 by 252mm (7¼ by 10 inches).   ref: 3292  €200