Asie du Sud-Est - "East Indies": Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, the Philippines; Johannes Janssonius - Asie du Sud-Est - Gravure sur cuivre, coloris d'époque - Johannes Janssonius - Monstre marin - 1621-1650

Ancient copper-engraved map of Southeast Asia (Indochina, Malay Peninsula, Insulinde and the Philippines) hand-enhanced by Johannes Janssonius, published in 1633 in the Mercator-Hondius atlas.

It features a title cartouche ornamented with two figures of armed indigenous people, an address cartouche “Amstelodami Ioannes Ianssonius excudebat,” a scale cartouche (Spanish leagues and German miles) supported by two tritons, two windroses with fleur-de-lis, and a rhumb-line network.

The map is animated with small ships and sea monsters. It shows Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, the Moluccas, Timor, the Philippines, the Ladrones Islands (Marianas), as well as the coast of New Guinea (“t'Landt vande Papuos”).

- Dimensions: sheet: 56 x 47.5 cm; map plate: 46.9 x 35.3 cm
- Condition: Very good overall for a map of this age. Presence of a central vertical fold and very light stains. See photos for more details.

Atlas Mercator-Hondius
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The atlas known as “Mercator-Hondius” continues the work of Gerard Mercator, whose copper plates were acquired by Jodocus Hondius in 1604. This French edition of 1633 is signed by his son Henricus Hondius and his son-in-law Joannes Janssonius, who augmented it with new maps.

Jan Jansson
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Jan Jansson (Johannes Janssonius, 1588-1664) was a Dutch publisher and cartographer, born in Arnhem and active in Amsterdam. He was the son-in-law of Jodocus Hondius, whose heirs later took over the plates of Mercator’s atlas. He ensured its dissemination under his imprint from the 1630s, then published his own large atlas (Atlas Novus, then Atlas Major).