Antique Engraved Map of Scotland ‘Scotia Regnum’ by Johannes Janssonius (1588 -1664) with Inset Map of Orkney and Royal Coat of Arms, 1638-46

From the ‘Atlas Novus sive Descriptio Geographica Totius Orbis Terrarum tabulis Aeneis luculentissimis et accuratissimis exornata‘ by G. J. et Mercatoris Hondii, Henricus Hondius and Jan Janssonius publishers. The verso text is in Latin. The National Library of Scotland has two examples of this map, dated as 1639 and 1646.

The map has tanning but otherwise is in good condition.

Johannes or Jan Jansson was a Dutch cartographer and publisher who lived and worked in Amsterdam. He produced his first maps in 1616 of France and Italy. By 1623, Jansson owned a bookstore in Frankfurt am Main, and later also in Danzig, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Königsberg, Geneva and Lyon. His wife Elisabeth died in 1627, and he married Elisabeth Carlier in 1629. He formed a partnership with his brother-in-law Henricus Hondius. The Hondius family had bought the plates from the Mercator‘s Atlas in 1604 and had continued to reissue them, but it was only with Jansson that Mercator’s ambition to cover all known geographies and cosmographies was achieved.

The three volumes of the Atlas Novus were published 1637-38 and reissued further in Latin and in German, French, Spanish, and Dutch translations, reaching 11 volumes by the end of Jansson’s life.