Bertius’ Miniature Map of Brandenburg Publisher(s)_Taylor Garnett Evans & Co. Ltd This plan of ancient Rome

This plan of ancient Rome is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers

The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius

but describes the central area as ‘elegantly rendered’

though here it seems to be an extension of Lake Maravi (generally identified with Lake Nyasa)

James Stanier & M’Arthur

Bertius’ Miniature Map of Brandenburg Publisher(s)_Taylor Garnett Evans & Co. Ltd This plan of ancient RomeThis miniature map of Brandenburg 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