Bertius’ Map of Franconia Mapmaker(s)_Thomas Badeslade engraved by Antonius Barbey

engraved by Antonius Barbey

208 + 40 leaves of plates

as distributed to passengers

Map postcard

MacDonald Gill worked on other projects associated with the Exhibition

Bertius’ Map of Franconia Mapmaker(s)_Thomas Badeslade engraved by Antonius BarbeyThis map of Franconia, including Frankfurt and Nuremberg in modern Bavaria, is from 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