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Pages 197-249. Black and white photos. Features: Nice full-page photo portrait of Major Charles S. Walker, N.H. Department Commander American Legion; For God and Country - The American Legion - A New Hampshire Asset - major article with many great photos; The Legion - Maker of Americans - an interview with Maurice F. Devine; Behind the Lines; Behind the Lines - The American Legion Auxiliary at work; State Executive Board of the American Legion Auxiliary; A Portrait Gallery of Legionnaires - excellent photos with write-ups of selected individuals; New Hampshire's Labor Commissioner; Their Son; An Anthology of One Poem Poets; Over the Top with Ayrshires - The Sawyer Herd and Farrm Buildings - article with nice photos; In the Springtime; When Claremont was called Ashley III - Two English Maps of Revolutionary Times; Current opinion in New Hampshire; Old Home Week and the Tercentenary; Books of New Hampshire Interest; The Editor Stops to Talk; New Hampshire Necrology. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy of this particularly excellent issue. Magazine
603 pages. Index. Footnotes. Black and white photos. Fold-out maps. Printed upon glossy stock. "Aims to provide a concise modern account of nearly all aspects of Greenland's geology." - from Preface. Small inkstamp atop front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this highly-informative academic work. Book
796 pages. Written in German. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photographs. Includes two detailed maps stored in pocket inside back board. "Dieses Buch sollte ein Werk unseres hochverdienten Heimatfreundes Josef PreuBler werden. Es kam nicht dazu. Der Tod riB dieson besten Kenner unsurer Heimat and Bewahrer ihrer werte viel zu fruh aus unserer Mitte. Bis zur Halfte des 18. Jahrhunderts war die "Geschichte" fertiggestellt. Doch die Vielen LebensauBerungen unserer Stadt auf allen Gebieten der Kultur, Wirtschaft und Kunst blieben ungeschrieben. Wie aber wuBte er unsere Heimat gerade aus dieser Sicht in unzahliegn Vortragen, Beitragen, besonders fur die Reichenberger Zeitun und in Buchern vollendet darzustellen! Auch das Reichenberger archiv verdankt ihm eine Sammlung wertvollster Unterlagen, die er durch sein Ansehen in einem groBen BekanntenKreis und durch einen jahrelangen, umfangreichen Briefwechsel gewinnen konnte. So war reiches Material vorhanden, das nun fur den ganzen Inhalt des Buches verwendet werden konnte. Ohne seine bemuhungen hatte es nicht geschrieben werden konnen. So gesehen ist es in den Grundlagen auch sein Werk." - from Author's Foreward. Blue cloth boards decorated with partially worn gilt lettering and graphic. Front hinge open. Bit of writing upon front endpaper and reverse side of one map, else generally clean and unmarked. Contents partially yellowed. Average wear to book. Dust jacket heavily worn. Remains a useful copy. Book
33"x23" reinforced paper map. Undated - circa 1945? Scale: one quarter inch to one mile Geographical Section, General Staff, No. 3957 (Air). "F/O Ellis" neatly printed in each corner in ink. Average wear. Book
89 pages. Selected bibliography. Illustrated in colour. "Thirty-nine Earth Change maps spanning a vast period of time, from 4 million BC to 15,000 AD, come to light in a little village in South Africa. Their architect, Hans Luhdo, produced them in only 5 months. The pivotal maps are those drawn for the year 2000. The speed with which they were created suggests that he was a man driven, racing against time. A few weeks after the last map was completed, he died." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
252 pages. Examines the social and economic aspects of life in St. Edmonds since its beginning. Contains a blend of information from a number of sources including newspapers, scrapbooks, diaries, letters, photos, and other authors' research. Includes a treasure trove of genealogical information. Numerous black-and-white illustrations. Black-and-white photographic endpapers. Other than some hand-written genealogical details hand-written upon the family tree on page 205, book is clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Moderate wear and bit of sunning to colourful dust jacket. Excellent copy overall. Book
34.5" x 26.5" reinforced paper. N.W. 48/2. Geographical Section, General Staff, No. 4072. Compiled and drawn at War Office, 1940. Heliographed and printed at Ordnance Survey, 1940. Identifies Land Aerodromes, Landing Grounds, Water Aerodromes, Radioelectric Stations, Explosives Areas, and more. Average wear and soiling. Name in ink in upper right corner. Name in pencil along top edge. Cover not included. Book
Gotha, Julius Perthes, 1861. 4to. Contemp, hcalf. Gilt spine. A small stamp to titlepage. VIII,482 pp. and 16, partly folded, lithographed maps and plans. Internally clean. + Ergänzungshäfte.
Pages 617-644. Features: Cover photos of the Mosquito Mark XVIII and its U-Boat strafing gun and six-pounder cannon; One-page Karsh photo-portrait of Sam Rayburn; Twelve excellent photos from Geilenkirchen, recently captured by British and French forces; Four photos at the Koenigsmacher Fort, which apparently made marine fittings; The Liberatioin of Metz - six photos in the city; Photos in the recently liberated cities of Belfort and Strasbourg; Photos of the advance on Venlo; Variety of photos of mine-clearing, destroyed German rolling stock, and humorous signs; Article entitled "Allied Advance to the Rhine" with maps; Photos of Field-Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, General Sir Henry Maitland-Wilson, and Lieut.-General Mark Clark; Two pages of illustrations of the launching of V-2 rocket bombs with explanation; Six photos of V-2 rocket parts found wrecked in Belgium; One page of illustrations explaining a simple system for castaways to make sea water drinkable; Photo of the U.S.S. "Missouri"; Interesting photos shows long contrail of V-2 rocket, four short contrails of fighters and flying fortress in foreground; Two photos of the burning U.S. light aircraft carrier "Princeton" which sunk in the battle of the Philippines; Aerial photos of the obliterated towns of Duren and Julich; Before and after aerial photos of V-2 factory at Weimar which was hammered by U.S. heavy bombers; Photos of personalities of the week include General Philippe Leclerc, Sir George Clausen, Daniel Sultan, Naik Yeshwant Chadge, V.C., John D. Baskeyfield, V.C., Col. C. Meyer, Maj.-Gen. Dunckern, Duncan Sandys, M. Mikolajczyk, David Vivian Currie, V.C., Sir Edward Grigg, M. Joseph Caillaux, C.W. Alfrey, Sir A.S. Eddington, Count Carandini, and Tulbahadur Pun, V.C.; Photos of damage to Florence - medieval sites destroyed by hun vandalism; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Coverfold taped. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 589-616. Features: Cover illustration of the capsized "Tirptz" in Tromso Fjord; One-page Karsh photo-portrait of Elmer H. Davis, U.S. Director of the Office of War Information; Two-page illustration of Captain David Jamieson winning a V.C. as he directs an action to save a bridgehead; Photo of Himmler reading Hitler's proclamation at delayed celebration of the Munich beer cellar putsch; Photo of Hitler awarding Belgian Rexist leader, Leon Degrelle; Photos of British Second Army tanks in action on the Western Front; Photo-illustrated article entitled "The Allied Offensive in the West; Five photos in the wrecked German town of Gressenich, captured by the U.S. First Army; Two pages of maps showing the Western Front; Six photos of the U.S. Sixth Army in action in Germany; Photos of personalities of the week include Sir Charles Craven, Rhoderick McGrigor, Sir Robert Kelly, General Koenig, Major-General Bedell Smith, Churchill visiting French troops at Besancon, Air Chief-Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory and his wife, Marjorie Maxse, A.C. Maclaren, Dr. H. Colijn, A.G. Williams and J.B. Tait (the men who led the attack on the "Tirpitz"; Centrefold compilation of seven photos with General Patton's Third Army in and around Metz; Two pages of fascinating illustrations explain the "Hollow Charge" - the deadly explosive principle which uses blast to bore a hole through solid armour; Photo of American jet-propelled P-59A Airacomet; Photo of U-boat"U-570" renamed H.M. Submarine "Graph" on surface; Photos of "Buffalo" amphibious tank; Nostalgic ads; Two pages of photos of the U.S. Liberation of Leyte; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Coverfold taped. A sound vintage copy. Book
Counties individually colored. Outer dimensions: 21.75" x 14.5". Unmarked with moderate wear. Center fold. 2" opening to bottom edge near fold mended with archival tape. A quality vintage copy. Bonus: includes separate extensive list of New York's counties and towns/cities and their (1889) populations. Book
This copy bearing the ink stamp of F.R. Swanton of Davis Point, Manitoba. Frederick Swanton served in the 200th (Winnipeg) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during WWI. Illustrated red card covers measure 8.25" x 5.5". Map folds out to 40" by 31". Undated but appears to be circa 1918. Issued as a supplement to Montreal publications The Family Herald and Weekly Star by permission G.W. Bacon & Co. Ltd., 127 Strand, London. Detailed black and white map of Europe presents the setting of World War I, presumably as a reference for Canadians following the progress of the war. Average wear. Several unobtrusive clear tape repairs. A sound vintage copy of this Canadian WWI memento with special noted provenance. Book
198 pages including index. Maps and mapping strategies in Contemporary Canadian and Australian fiction. Examines maps as ambivalent symbols of national culture, as vehicles for the representation of cultural history, and as often self-parodic analogues for the literary text. Clean, bright and fresh copy in attractive green cloth boards. Small chips from upper edge of dust jacket back panel. An excellent copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Nice colour RCAF ad inside front cover; Dispute Still Surrounds Duff Cooper; More Canadians than Jobs; Lovely colour full-page ad for 1954 DeSoto automobiles; The Seven Living Ghosts of Nuremberg - an uncensored first-hand report from behind the bars of Spandau where Rudolf Hess, Karl Doenitz, Baldur Von Schirach, Walther Funk, Erich Raeder, Albert Speer and Baron Konstantin Von Neurath - top Nazis - imprisoned for crimes against humanity wait out the tortuous years while the world forgets they exist - with photos; Athabaska's Atom Boom - Albert Zeemel's discovery of Uranium sparks the development of Uranium City, Saskatchewan - great article with many photos; The Maps that Charted our History - a famous collection, published here for the first time, show the slow evolution of Europe's knowledge about Canada; How Early Map Makers Saw the Great Lakes; The Brainiest School in the Country - Dalhousie Law School - article with photos; How Papa Masella Made His Boys Make Music - Frank Masella of Montreal and his eight musical sons; In the Lost World of the Cypress Hills - this strange mountain on the prairies harbors tropical scorpions, petrified figs, fourteen kinds of orchid and a lawless past that sparked the formation of the Mounties; Are People Monkees? - fiction by James McNamee; Ford colour V-8 ad; 1954 Plymouth ad; Colour Buick ad; Chevrolet truck ad; and more. Average wear. Couple of small chips from covers. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Cover: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Henry Yevele, c. 1320 to 1400" by John H. Harvey; The Great World War: A Survey of Naval Operations (inc maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Pastures of the Sea. Pictorial Journals include: Novel Ships of War of the Royal Navy (illus. by C.E. Turner): Sketches From Holland: Dutch Civil Guards and U.S. Paratroops (illus. Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Ubiquitous Bulldozer: A Mechanical Tool of Peace Now Becomes an Important Weapon of War (illus. by G.H. Davis); Battlegrounds of Holland: Scenes of Walcheren Island and the Moerdijk Bridges; The Perilous and Exhausting Operations of British Troops on Walcheren Island: Landing-Craft Difficulties; The Gallant Landing of British Marine Commandos at Westkapelle, Walcheren Island, in the Face of Heavy Enemy Fire; Our Steady Advance in Italy: Scenes in the Mountain War; Shakespeare's London Modelled; Glasgow Faces Housing Problem; The Funeral of Dr. (William) Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Canterbury Cathedral; The War in Europe: A Gibraltar "Find": An Historic Enthronement; How the Battle of the Flying Bomb was Won: An Exhibition in London; News Items of Interest from Holland, France, Belgium and Russia; Oxford in Wartime: Uniforms, Caps and Gowns; and Oxford "The Mother of Arts and Eloquence". Page 535/536 missing. Page 557/558 loose but present. Binding sound. Contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
Cover: Our Royal Field-Marshal (King George VI) Viewing the Fighting in Italy. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Excellenz X: The Leader of To-Morrow's Germans" by R.G. Waldeck; The Great World War: What Next on the Eastern Front? (inc maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Summer's Emptying Nests. Pictorial Journals include: The King (George VI) in Italy: His Majesty Awards Honours and Decorations; Obstacles in the Path of Our Normandy Advance: German Defensive Methods in a Compact Countryside (illustrated by Captain Bryan de Grineau); Britain's 17-Pounder: More than a Match for German Tanks (illustrated by G.H. Davis); The Armour Against Us: Some Details of Germany's Modern Armoured Vehicles in Use in Normandy To-Day (illustrated by G.H. Davis); Blazing the Trail: Bulldozers Carving Roads Through Debris in Normandy; The Allied Offensive in Normandy: Montgomery's Great Drive; Scenes of Action at Caumont and Other Sites; Advance in Normandy: The Type of Landscape Our Forces Experience; The Devastation of Modern War: St. Lo Cathedral and Other Ruined Sites; Three Famous Places in Brittany - Now in the War News; The Scene of an Invasion Rehearsal - The Invasion Staged in Reality; The 14th Army's Success in Burma Amid Arduous Conditions; Warsaw Yesterday: Poland's Capital Under Nazi Domination; The War From Varied Angles: Topicalities Recorded by the Camera; Flying Our Wounded Home From the Battlefields of Normandy (Illus. by Flight Lieut. H.W. Hailstone); Dover-Photographed by the Enemy for His Cross-Channel Guns; and A Puzzle Posed by High-Speed Photographs of a Bullet in Flight. Prior owners ink stamp with some writing centre front cover. Some ink smudges to back cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Moderate wear. Book
Cover: The First Entry of Canadians into Caen. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "The Bank of England: 1694 - 1944" by Reginald Saw; The Great World War: Moving on in Italy (inc maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Wood Comes of Age. Pictorial Journals include: In Liberated Caen: The Mayor Hoisting the Tricolour; Caen After the Battle: The Key City of Lower Normandy, whose Capture Marked a Valorous British Victory; Two Aerial Photos: German Atlantic Wall, Eastern Section of the Cherbourg Peninsula; On the Western Front (Battle of Normandy): War and Its Aftermath; On the Western Front: Scenes From the Battle Zones of British and American Armies in Normandy; The Red Army Surges On: Important Cities in the Path of Battle; A Lancashire Fusilier's V.C.: Fusilier (Francis Arthur) Jefferson, Single-Handed, Breaking Up an Enemy Tank Attack (illustrated by Captain Bryan de Grineau); The Onward Advance of Gen. Alexander's Armies: War Scenes at Castiglione, Lake Trasimeno, The French Entry into Siena; Mediaeval San Gimignano and Its Towers; The War in Burma: The Clearing of the Kohima-Imphal Road; The Japanese Main Fleet Caught Napping - Another U.S. Sea Victory (Battle of Philippine Sea); New Additions to our Fighting Power: Flying Bombs from Start to Finish; A Threatened View - Durham Cathedral from River and Railway (illustrated by Sir Muirhead Bone); and War's Trail of Devastation in Normandy: Historic Buildings Wrecked in Fierce Armoured Battles on the Allied Front. Binding sound. Clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A quality copy. Book
Cover: A Triumph of Road-making: The First Allied Convoy to China to Break the Japanese Blockade. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Persons and Places" by George Santayana; The Great World War: The American Passage of the Roer (inc maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: The Locust's Year of Decision. Pictorial Journals include: The Rocket That Would Not Go Up! - Photos of an ill-fated rocked experiement by Herr Johannes Winkler in 1932; U-Boat Warfare - 1939 - 1945: A Survey of Changing German Submarines and Tactics in a Never-Ceasing Battle (Illus. by G.H. Davis); War Scraps: Incidents at the Front and Behind the Lines; On the Western Front: The American Advance into Germany; Battle Incidents with the Third and Seventh U.S. Armies; The Battle for Goch: British Troops in the Wrecked German Fortress Town; General Crerar's Offensive: The Storming of Cleve (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); General Crerar's Offensive: British Troops in Mortal Combat With the Germans in the Reichswald (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Zeitz Synthetic Oil Plant: Before the R.A.F. Attack - And After; War in the Pacific: Luzon Island and Iwo Jima; With the Red Army: Scenes From Liberated Poznan; Bombed Bath: Proposals for Replanning; and Masterpieces of Painting From the Cook Collection. 8" opening to page 241/242. Remaining contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A worthy copy. Book
16 pages. Features: A German Friend of America to the Americans, by Ludwig Fulda; Sohmer Piano ad inside front cover; The German Sailor has "Arrived"; English Barbarism, by Hans F. Kammeyer - an account of how Germans living in England have been degraded and how terribly they are still being persecuted (2-page article); The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army has declared that Emperor Francis Joseph has ceased to be the ruler of Austria-Hungary and is now the King of the Jews; Alsace-Lorraine and Ireland, by James K. McGuire; Help the Germans in Canada - Aliens in their own land - Arthur v. Briesen Shows How; The Iron Cross - a poem by Frederick H. Martens; Belgium's Breach of Neutrality - article with reproductions of maps offering proof of the Anglo-Belgian military convention; "The Leopard's Spots" - a chapter of facts about England's Method of Making War, by Frederick F. Schrader; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Two-inch opening to top of cover fold. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
12mo [20 x 13 cm]; vii, 358 pp, lithographed folding map as frontis (short tears at stub & fold), half title page is present. contemporary half leather, marbled boards, gilt title lettering on leather spine label, light wear at edges, very good, sound and solid copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A narrative and intelligent description by a Scot who travelled extensively in the area, including politics, towns and cities, agriculture, natural history, indigenous peoples, business opportunities, geology, volcanoes, etc. This contains the first map of the Republic of Central America and one of the few ever published since the republic broke up shortly after into the separate nations that exist today. Sabin 21317. Parker, Travels in Central America. Markman 49: 'General description of Central America at mid-nineteenth century. Also has a description of Antigua, Guatemala and Guatemalan houses'. Welch 61. Spain & Spanish America 223. Humphreys 1707. The author's name has been spelled Dunlap in one reference. Grieb GU391: 'More than just a travelogue or journal, it includes historical accounts drawn from the existing literature. . . his accounts of contemporary political maneuvers and revolts are valuable to the historian of this era'.
Fine Fine English Original bdg. with original dust wrapper. DJ. Folio. (39 x 32 cm). In English and Turkish. First Edition. 338 p., 291 ills. in total including b/w and colors: Color ills. of 245 maps (some of them 2 page-sized) and 46 small ills. including some of Constantinople photos and maps. The Pervititch maps that are published in this book should be interpreter from this general point of view. Istanbul realized its modernization in the second half on the 19th century. The frequent fires that occurred in the city were major disasters for its inhabitants, but at the same time created opportunities for the city administrators who intended to push through this modernization. In the aftermath of the 1870 Beyoglu fire, one of the biggest of these fires, a significant change occurered in the realitonship between society and fires. The population of Istanbul became acquainted with insurance that covered fire risks. Numerous insurance companies established branches in Istanbul. Fire insurance became a productive industry. This development turned maps showing the fire risks in the building stock of the city an extremely necessary source of information for insurance companies. Initially, insurance maps were commisioned to the C.E. Goad Company for a rahter limited area of the city between 1904-1906. Later, Jacques Pervititch prepared much more detailed maps covering almost the entire area of the city for the Central Office of Turkish Insurance Agents. Pervititch drew over 230 maps between 1922 and 1945.
Pianta della città pubblicata in GOTTFRIED, J. L. (ABELIN, J. P.). Inventarium Sveciae. Das ist: Gründliche, und warhaffte Beschreibung dess Königreichs Schweden und dessen incorpoirten Provintzen, darinnen von Natur und Eigenschafft dess Lands, Fruchtbarkeit, Metallen, Wassern, stehenden, fliessenden und Meeren, Innwohnerne und Völkern.... Frankfurt am Main (Wolffgang Hofmann) 1632.Si tratta di una copia della pianta di J. De Bry del 1597, senza alcun aggiornamento. In basso a destra troviamo il monogramma I.K. Fecit. Acquaforte, grandi margini, minimi restauri alla piega centrale, per il resto in buono stato di conservazione. Map of Rome published in GOTTFRIED, J. L. (ABELIN, J. P.). Inventarium Sveciae. Das ist: Gründliche, und warhaffte Beschreibung dess Königreichs Schweden und dessen incorpoirten Provintzen, darinnen von Natur und Eigenschafft dess Lands, Fruchtbarkeit, Metallen, Wassern, stehenden, fliessenden und Meeren, Innwohnerne Frankfurt am Völkern ... 1632. It is a close copy of Johannes De Bry's map of 1597, without any updating. At the bottom right we find the monogram I.K. Fecit. Etching, large margins, minimal restorations to the central fold, otherwise in good condition. Marigliani (2007), p. 179, n. 82.
Format 50 x 58,5 cm. *Großer kolorierter Stadtplan mit Befestigung und den umliegenden Rheinarmen im oberen Teil. Unten mit einer großen Gesamtansicht von Alt Breisach (Ansicht über den Fluß), rechts und links flankiert von je einer allegorischen Darstellung. - Sehr dekoratives Blatt. Sauber und sehr gut erhalten. Landkarten de
48,5 x 56 cm. Darstellung des Sonnensystems und Sternbilder im Tierkreis. Bis an die Randlinien beschnitten und alt aufgezogen. Am linken Seitenrand und an den der rechten unteren Ecke mit insgesamt 3 kleineren Randfehlstellen. - Versand erfolgt ausgerahmt und ohne Rahmen. Bücher de
Orientata con il Nord a destra, la mappa raffigura nel dettaglio la regione compresa tra la valle del Nilo e il Mar Rosso. Dall'Atlas MajorDoppio cartiglio, uno per il titolo e uno per la dedica in francese a "A Monsieur Monsieur Doviat Sgr. de Montreuille, Con.er du Roy, et Maistre Ordinaire en sa Chambre des Comptes Par son Très humble et obéisant Serviteur P. Duval Géographe de sa Maiesté". Johannes Janssonius, figlio dell'editore di Arnhem Jan Janssen, sposò Elisabeth Hondius, figlia di Jodocus Hondius, ad Amsterdam nel 1612. Dopo il suo matrimonio, si stabilì in questa città come libraio ed editore di materiale cartografico. Nel 1618 si stabilì ad Amsterdam accanto alla libreria di Willem Jansz. Blaeu, entrando in una seria competizione. Le sue attività non riguardavano solo la pubblicazione di atlanti e libri, ma anche di mappe singole e un vasto commercio di libri con filiali a Francoforte, Danzica, Stoccolma, Copenaghen, Berlino, Koningsbergen, Ginevra e Lione. Nel 1631 iniziò a pubblicare atlanti insieme a Henricus Hondius. Nei primi anni 1640 Henricus Hondius lasciò l'attività di pubblicazione di atlanti completamente a Janssonius. La concorrenza con Joan Blaeu, figlio e successore di Willem, nella produzione di atlanti spinse Janssonius ad ampliare il suo Atlas Novus finalmente in un'opera di sei volumi, in cui furono inseriti un atlante marino e un atlante del Vecchio Mondo. Dopo la morte di Joannes Janssonius, il negozio e la casa editrice furono continuati dagli eredi sotto la direzione di Johannes van Waesbergen (c. 1616-1681), genero di Joannes Janssonius. Le matrici degli atlanti di Janssonius furono in seguito vendute a Schenk e Valck. Map oriented with north on the right. It presents a colorful and detailed picture of the region between the fertile Nile River valley and the Red Sea. The map is adorned with a strapwork title cartouche with a credit to Pierre du Val. Includes a note in a decorative cartouche: "A Monsieur Monsieur Doviat Sgr. de Montreuille, Con.er du Roy, et Maistre Ordinaire en sa Chambre des Comptes Par son Très humble et obéisant Serviteur P. Duval Géographe de sa Maiesté".Published in Janssonius' Atlas Major. Johannes Janssonius (Arnhem, 1588-1664), son of the Arnhem publisher Jan Janssen, married Elisabeth Hondius, daughter of Jodocus Hondius, in Amsterdam in 1612. After his marriage, he settled down in this town as a bookseller and publisher of cartographic material. In 1618 he established himself in Amsterdam next door to Blaeu’s book shop. He entered into serious competition with Willem Jansz. Blaeu.. His activities not only concerned the publication of atlases and books, but also of single maps and an extensive book trade with branches in Frankfurt, Danzig, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Koningsbergen, Geneva, and Lyon. In 1631 he began publishing atlases together with Henricus Hondius. In the early 1640s Henricus Hondius left the atlas publishing business completely to Janssonius. Competition with Joan Blaeu, Willem’s son and successor, in atlas production prompted Janssonius to enlarge his Atlas Novus finally into a work of six volumes, into which a sea atlas and an atlas of the Old World were inserted. After the death of Joannes Janssonius, the shop and publishing firm were continued by the heirs under the direction of Johannes van Waesbergen (c. 1616-1681), son-in-law of Joannes Janssonius. The copperplates from Janssonius’s atlases were afterwards sold to Schenk and Valck. Van der Krogt 1
