{"id":29429,"date":"2026-09-02T12:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiek\/niet-gecategoriseerd\/janssonius-atlas-titelblad-novus-atlas-1649\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:27:46","slug":"johannes-janssonius-atlas-title-page-1649","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiques\/miscellaneous\/miscellaneous-before-1880\/johannes-janssonius-atlas-title-page-1649\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlas title page &#8211; Johannes Janssonius, 1649"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE FOUR CONTINENTS AND SCIENCE \u2013 JANSSONIUS\u2019<\/strong> <em><strong>NOVUS ATLAS<\/strong><\/em><strong>,<\/strong> <strong>1649<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>Novus Atlas, Das ist Welt-Beschreibung mit sch\u00f6nen newen ausf\u00fchrlichen Taffeln<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, title page for the German edition of the &#8220;<em>Novus Atlas&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0by <strong>Johannes Janssonius<\/strong>, published in Amsterdam in <strong>1649<\/strong>. Engraving by <strong>Dani\u00ebl van den Bremden<\/strong>, signed at lower right \u201c<em>DVBremden fecit<\/em>\u201d, with the title printed in letterpress on a separately applied sheet. Contemporary hand colouring with gold highlights. Approx. 50.2 \u00d7 29.8 cm (sheet).<\/p>\n<p>At the top, cartography is presented as a science closely linked to astronomy. Scholars study celestial and terrestrial globes, while at the centre a large <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armillary_sphere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">armillary sphere<\/a> is raised aloft. The sun, stars and other heavenly bodies appear among the clouds. The measuring and description of the earth are thus placed within a much broader cosmographic framework: to map the world, one also needed an understanding of the movements of the celestial bodies and of the mathematical order of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Around the central title panel, the four continents then known to Europeans are represented allegorically. To the left stands Africa, as a dark-skinned woman surrounded by, among other animals, an ostrich and lions. On the right, a woman with feathers, bow and arrows personifies America. At lower left sits the crowned figure of Europe, surrounded by livestock, fruit and other signs of abundance; opposite her is Asia, in exotic dress and flanked by, among other animals, an elephant and a camel. These personifications and their exotic animals follow the seventeenth-century European pictorial tradition in which the continents were represented through characteristic dress, animals and products.<\/p>\n<p>The title itself proclaims the ambitious scope of the atlas: <em>\u201cWelt-Beschreibung mit sch\u00f6nen neuen ausf\u00fchrlichen Taffeln, Inhaltende Die K\u00f6nigreiche und L\u00e4nder des gantzen Erdreichs, Abgetheilt In vier Theile\u201d<\/em> [a description of the world with new and detailed maps, containing the kingdoms and countries of the entire earth, divided into four parts].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jan_Janssonius\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johannes Janssonius<\/a> (1588\u20131664) was one of the most important Amsterdam map publishers of the seventeenth century. Through his marriage to Elisabeth Hondius, he became connected with the publishing family of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jodocus_Hondius\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jodocus Hondius<\/a>. From the 1630s onward, he worked closely with his brother-in-law <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henricus_Hondius_II\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henricus Hondius<\/a> on further and greatly expanded editions of the Mercator-Hondius atlas. Under Janssonius, this cartographic enterprise developed into the <em>Novus Atlas<\/em> and ultimately into a monumental atlas in eleven volumes.<\/p>\n<p>This title page is characteristic of the luxurious Amsterdam atlas production of the mid-seventeenth century, in which scientific knowledge was combined with an elaborate allegorical pictorial programme.<\/p>\n<p>Price: Euro 425,-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE FOUR CONTINENTS AND SCIENCE \u2013 JANSSONIUS\u2019 NOVUS ATLAS, 1649 \u201cNovus Atlas, Das ist Welt-Beschreibung mit sch\u00f6nen newen ausf\u00fchrlichen Taffeln\u201d, title page for the German edition of the &#8220;Novus Atlas&#8221;\u00a0by Johannes Janssonius, published in Amsterdam in 1649. 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