Janssonius’ Map of Cumbria & Westmorland Binding_contemporary calf London: Day & Son for

London: Day & Son for FG Moon

with Henricus Hondius

trivial spotting

Printed Maps of Victorian London

Janssonius’ Map of Cumbria & Westmorland Binding_contemporary calf London: Day & Son forCumbria & Westmoria. Vulgo Cumberland & Westmorland Joannes Janssonius II (1588 1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked on a revised edition of the Mercator Hondius atlas (which was known as the Atlas Novus from 1638 onwards). The Hondius Janssonius map publishing business traced its roots back to Gerardus Mercator. Mercator coined the term atlas (after the wise, mythical, Mauritanian king rather than the weary titan)