Bertius’ Miniature Map of Prussia Author(s)_Tim Bryars contemporary speckled calf

contemporary speckled calf

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

Pedley does not specify a second state

and numerous illustrations in the text

Thomas Hartwell

Bertius’ Miniature Map of Prussia Author(s)_Tim Bryars contemporary speckled calfThis 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