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Attractive full color example of Henricus Hondius' derivative of John Smith's highly important 1612 map of Virginia, based upon the 1618 map of Henricus' brother Jodocus Hondius, the plate for which had been sold to Willem Blaeu by Jodocus' estate after his death in 1629.
Hondius map of the Chesapeake was the first widely distributed derivative of Smith's map of the region. The map depicts the discoveries in the region detailed by Captain John Smith in his map of 1612. Smith's map is the basis for Hondius' work and was by far the most important map of Virginia published in the first part of the 17th Century. First issued in 1612, it became the prototype map of the region until Augustine Hermann's map of 1673. Smith's map was first issued separately in London. Later, it was used to illustrate a number of rare works on Virginia - like this Hondius example - and was instrumental in creating interest in the new Virginia Colony.
The Jamestown (Iamestowne) settlement appears, along with a number of other early English and Indian place names. This was one of the first maps engraved by Henricus for his Atlantis Appendix of 1630. The map includes images of an Indian figure and Powhatan's lodge based on John White's drawings made during the first attempt to form a colony in Virginia. It is the only edition of the map where the Indian faces the Chesapeake.
Henricus Hondius (1597-1651) was a Dutch engraver and mapmaker, a member of a prominent cartographic family. His father, Jodocus Hondius, was also an engraver and geographer. While working with his father, Henricus was instrumental in the expansion and republishing of Mercator’s atlas, first published in 1595 and republished by Hondius in 1606.
Upon his father’s death in 1612, Henricus and his brother, Jodocus the Younger, took over the business. He set up his own shop in 1621, where he continued to release new editions of the Mercator atlas. Later, he partnered with his brother-in-law, Jan Janssonius, in continuing to expand and publish Mercator’s atlas, which would become known as the Mercator-Hondius-Janssonius atlas. Born and based in Amsterdam, he died there in 1651.
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