c. 1657.
Hand coloured copperplate engraving.

By Jan Jansson.

Jansson first issued this map of the Roman Empire, based upon an earlier map of Briet, in the 1650s.

The map includes an inset of the area around Rome.

Johannes Janssonius (1588, in Arnhem – buried July 11, 1664, in Amsterdam; born Jan Janszoon), also known in English as Jan Jansson, was a Dutch cartographer and publisher who lived and worked in Amsterdam in the 17th century. He produced his first maps in 1616 of France and Italy. In 1623 Janssonius owned a bookstore in Frankfurt, later also in Danzig, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Königsberg, Geneva and Lyon.
He formed a partnership with his brother in law Henricus Hondius, and together they published atlases as Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius.

(Extensively repaired. Visible tears).

660mm x 560mm

R4,500