[World atlas] Atlas Minor. Gerardi Mercatoris à Hondio plurimis aeneis Tabulis auctus et illustratus: denuo

recognit[us] additisque novis delineationibus emendatus. Amst., Johannes Janssonius, 1628. 1st ed. (8),636,(16) p. Engr. allegorical frontisp. w. title and complete w. 143 maps. Cont. overlapping vellum (ties lacking). Obl. 4to.

Ex libris verso engr. frontisp. Binding w. usual sm. imperfection, map of Bohemia glued on paper, otherwise a very good copy. The copper plates from the earlier editions were sold to English parties. Pieter van de Keere and Abraham Goos (for the world map and the continents) made a new set of copper plates. For the maps of the Dutch provinces Janssonius used the copper plates from the "Nieuw Nederlandsch Caertboeck" by Abraham Goos. Ref. Koeman-VanderKrogt III B p. 513-518.