Ducatus Limburg.

A very rare issue of this map of Limburg. Cornelis Danckerts II. copied the folio map of H.Hondius.
The publisher's address was placed in the lower right-hand corner. The cartouches are mirror-imaged copies from Hondius' maps of Charleroi and Namur.
No atlases by Danckerts are known: this rare map has been preserved only in loose-sheet copies or bound into composite atlases.

No text on verso. From a French composite atlas.

In the first half of the 17th century the publishing house Hondius / Janssonius / Blaeu dominated the map publishing in Europe. It is known that at the beginning of the 17th century the French publishers went to Amsterdam, buying those maps not available in Paris.
The Amsterdam publisher Cornelis Danckerts the elder made selling trips to Paris and was associated with Melchior Tavernier, who became at the beginning of the 16th century the most important publisher in Paris. He was very much influenced by the Dutch and must have visited Amsterdam on a regular basis. In 1638 he paid 500 pounds to H.Hondius, and 1000 pounds to Willem Blaeu, most likely in payment for maps he sold in depot. (Fleury, Archives Nationales documents du minutier etc. (Paris 969), vol I.p.652).
J.Boisseau copied after or used maps by H.Hondius, J.Jansson, W.Blaeu and C.Danckerts in his "Theatre de Gaules" from 1642. (Reference : Imago Mundi 32. M.Pastoureau, Imago Mundi 32).

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