Bertius’ Map of Eastern Friesland Mapmaker(s)_Aloisius Edouard wear to intersections of a

wear to intersections of a couple of folds

and the National Library of Scotland

map 18 x 24 cm

for which Brangwyn designed the scenery

Bertius’ Map of Eastern Friesland Mapmaker(s)_Aloisius Edouard wear to intersections of aThis map of Eastern Friesland 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