Henricus Hondius II

Henricus Hondius II (1597 – 16 August 1651) was a Dutch engraver, cartographer, and publisher.

Life

He was born in Amsterdam, the son of the famous cartographer Jodocus Hondius who had started a map-making business in the city. Henricus obtained the original plates of the Mercator 1569 world map, and published a 1606 version of it. After his father died in 1612 Henricus co-ran the business with his brother-in-law. In 1621 opened his own company in his hometown. The first time his name was mentioned in an atlas was in 1623 when he published the fifth edition of the Mercator-Hondius atlas. After 1628 Henricus partnered with the cartographer Jan Janssonius and together they continued the business. He died in Amsterdam.

He came from a different family from Hendrik Hondius I; there were two families engaged in very similar activities at the same time.

Works

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  1622 Oostelijk Zeeuws Vlaanderen
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  1630 World Map, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula
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  1631 Africa
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  1636 North America
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  1641 Nova et .. Iprensis
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  The bookshop: Wakkere Hond
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  Pieter van den Broecke.
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  Denmark 17th-century

Further reading

• Nadine Orenstein, Hendrick Hondius and the Business of Prints in Seventeenth-century Holland, Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996, ISBN 90-75607-04-0
• Martin Woods. "Antarctic World Views; Henricus Hondius, Polus Antarcticus; Nicholas Visscher, A new and very accurate map of the world", National Library of Australia, Mapping our World: Terra Incognita to Australia, Canberra, National Library of Australia, 2013. ISBN 9780642278098

External links

• Works by or about Henricus Hondius II at the Internet Archive