JANSONNIUS, Johannes – VALETTA CIVITAS NOVA MALTAE olim Millitae – 1657

Description

JANSONNIUS, Johannes (1588 – 1664) – 1657

Title of Map: VALETTA / CIVITAS NOVA / MALTAE / olim Millitae

Dist./ Features: Highly Detailed. Inset map of the Maltese islands within a decorative cartouche and having its own scale.

Engraver: Johannes Janssonius – Jan Janszoon

Cartographer: Johannes Janssonius

Title: THEATRUM / URBIUM / Celebriorum totius …

Publisher: Johannes Janssonius

Place: Amsterdam Year: 1657

Plate size: 413 x 515mm

Verso: Janssonius’s plan there is a description of Malta in Latin, captioned MALTA olim HYPERIA, with the page number ‘85’ on the right half of the sheet, Catchword: thymus.

Printing method: copper engraving

Notes: Johannes Janssonius (1588, Arnhem – buried July 11, 1664, Amsterdam) (born Jan Janszoon, in English often incorrect Jan Jansson) was a Dutch cartographer and publisher who lived and worked in Amsterdam in the 17th century. Janssonius was born in Arnhem, the son of Jan Janszoon the Elder, a publisher and bookseller. In 1612 he married Elisabeth de Hondt, the daughter of Jodocus Hondius. He produced his first maps in 1616 of France and Italy. In 1623 Janssonius owned a bookstore in Frankfurt am Main, later also in Danzig, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Königsberg, Geneva and Lyon. Elisabeth Hondius died in 1627 and he remarried one Elisabeth Carlier in 1629. In the 1630s he formed a partnership with his brother in law Henricus Hondius, and together they published atlases as Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius.