Janssonius’ Map of Cumbria & Westmorland Binding_contemporary calf with Henricus Hondius

with Henricus Hondius

5 maps (hand-coloured in outline) and 35 vignette views and plans of British towns and harbours

is considered to be his last significant work before his retirement

Johann Christian Wernsdorf (1723-1793) taught rhetoric and poetry at the University of Helmstadt between 1752 and his death

it was first published with a modest 26 maps in 1544

Janssonius’ Map of Cumbria & Westmorland Binding_contemporary calf with Henricus HondiusCumbria & Westmoria. Vulgo Cumberland & Westmorland Joannes Janssonius II (1588 1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked on a revised edition of the Mercator Hondius atlas (which was known as the Atlas Novus from 1638 onwards). The Hondius Janssonius map publishing business traced its roots back to Gerardus Mercator. Mercator coined the term atlas (after the wise, mythical, Mauritanian king rather than the weary titan)