Bertius' Miniature Map of the Low Countries cartographic games his Introductionis in universam geographiam

his Introductionis in universam geographiam was published posthumously in numerous editions

one or two closed marginal tears

something which we now take for granted but which only became viable as printing became cheaper

originally compiled in the 3rd and 4th centuries CE

Two steel engraved map sheets

Bertius' Miniature Map of the Low Countries cartographic games his Introductionis in universam geographiamThis miniature map of the Low Countries was published in the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them "undoubtedly the finest set