Description

PUBLICATION DETAILS: Imprint: Amstelodami, Apud Iohannem Ianssonium. 15″h x 20″w. French text verso. First published in 1633. This edition published in Nouvel Atlas ou Theatre du Monde (Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, 1647).

GEOGRAPHY: This map is nearly identical to the Blaeu and Hondius versions. It shows Bermuda at a large scale surrounded by small-scale outline maps of the coasts of Europe, America and Hispaniola. Bermuda had been discovered by the Spanish during the 16th Century but not colonized. In 1609 Sir George Somers shipwrecked on the island; early maps refer to the English name Somers in their titles. This map uses the Latin words for Summer Islands (Aestivarum Insularum). Within a few years it was being settled. The name Bermuda apparently comes from the sighting by Juan de Bermudez in 1515. Bermuda is shown divided into numbered plots within eight named tribes (or parishes).
 
JANSSON: Johannes Janssonius (1588 – buried 1664 in Amsterdam) (born Jan Janszoon, (in English also Jan Jansson). He was a Dutch cartographer and publisher who lived and worked in Amsterdam in the 17th century.
 
CONDITION: Centerfold repair. Image very good.
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Me 106.