Bertius' Miniature Map of the Low Countries cartographic games rather than an exercise in

rather than an exercise in propaganda

shown here as part of the District railway

something which we now take for granted but which only became viable as printing became cheaper

nk stamp of Parisian bookseller C

print code 358-1000-9/6/21

Bertius' Miniature Map of the Low Countries cartographic games rather than an exercise inThis miniature map of the Low Countries was published in 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