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de Jode
Primae Partis Asiae


Certificate of Authentication


This is to certify that the item illustrated and described below is a genuine antique
map, print or book that was first produced and published in 1593, today 431 years ago.
December 8, 2024

Dr Leendert Helmink, Ph.D.
Cartographer(s)

de Jode

First Published

Antwerp, 1593

This edition

1593 first and only edition

Size

30.0 x 50.8 cms

Technique

Copper engraving

Stock number

18809

Condition

excellent

Antique map of Middle East by de Jode
Antique map of Middle East by de Jode

Description

Cornelis de Jode's rare map of the Middle East after Giacomo Gastaldi.



Gerard de Jode (c.1509-1591)
Cornelis de Jode (son) (1568-1600)


Gerard de Jode originally issued his atlas in 1578 to compete with Ortelius' atlas with little success. In 1593, two years after his death, Gerard's son Cornelius re-issued the atlas. The success of the atlas was very limited due to heavy competition with Ortelius, who also seems to have bought many copies of de Jode's atlas to take them off the market. Because of this, both editions of the de Jode atlas are exceptionally rare.

"Gerard de Jode, born in Nijmegen, was a cartographer, engraver, printer and publisher in Antwerp, issueing maps from 1555 more or less in the same period as Ortelius. He was never able to offer very serious competition to his more businesslike rival although, ironically, he published Ortelius's famous 8-sheet World Map in 1564. His major atlas, now extremely rare, could not be published until 1578, eight years after the 'Theatrum', Ortelius having obtained a monopoly for that period.

The enlarged re-issue by his son in 1593 is more frequently found. On the death of Cornelis, the copper plates passed to J.B. Vrients (who bought the Ortelius plates about the same time) and apparently no further issue of the atlas was published."

(Moreland & Bannister).

"After the death of Cornelis in 1600, the copper-plates came into the hands of Jan Baptiste Vrients, then the publisher of Ortelius' Theatrum. Apparantly Vrients must have bought them to prevent any further publication of the Speculum."

(Koeman)