Pedemontii descriptio

Reference: S22006
Author Pieter van den Keere KAERIUS
Year: 1598 ca.
Zone: Piedmont
Printed: Amsterdam
Measures: 122 x 85 mm
€130.00

Reference: S22006
Author Pieter van den Keere KAERIUS
Year: 1598 ca.
Zone: Piedmont
Printed: Amsterdam
Measures: 122 x 85 mm
€130.00

Description

A superior rival to the pocket Ortelius atlas appeared about 1598, under the imprint of Barent Langenes and Cornelis Claesz. Claesz also published the "Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum", edition with texy by Petrus Bertius, in 1600.

Copperplate, in very good conditions. Engraved by Pieter Kaerius. Rare.

Literature

King, Miniature Antique Maps, p. 81.

Pieter van den Keere KAERIUS (Ghent 1571 - 1646 circa)

Engraver, publisher and bookseller of globes in-law of Jodocus Hondius was a student, with whom he worked closely. Among the other was half-brother Petrus Bertius and uncle of Abraham Goos. End engraver of maps worked with all active publishers in Amsterdam in the first half of the sixteenth century.

Literature

King, Miniature Antique Maps, p. 81.

Pieter van den Keere KAERIUS (Ghent 1571 - 1646 circa)

Engraver, publisher and bookseller of globes in-law of Jodocus Hondius was a student, with whom he worked closely. Among the other was half-brother Petrus Bertius and uncle of Abraham Goos. End engraver of maps worked with all active publishers in Amsterdam in the first half of the sixteenth century.