The collection is in 24 volumes and includes work from important Dutch mapmakers, such as Blaeu, Abraham Ortelius, Visscher, Schenk, Frederik de Wit and Hondius.
In Hondius map of 1591 the peninsulas of the South West appear, the Durrus river is named Fl.
He came from a different family from Henrik Hondius I; there were two families engaged in very similar activities at the same time.
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He was born in Amsterdam, the son of the famous cartographer Jodocus Hondius who had started a map-making business in the city.
In the 1630s he formed a partnership with his brother in law Henricus Hondius, and together they published atlases as Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius.
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In 1612 he married Elisabeth de Hondt, the daughter of Jodocus Hondius.
Mundy himself made the drawings for the volume and traced his routes in red on the maps of Hondius.
Brahe's expanded list had circulated in manuscript since 1598 and was available in graphic form on the celestial globes of Petrus Plancius, Hondius, and Willem Blaeu.
Jodocus Hondius | Hondius | Henricus Hondius | ''The Annunciation to the Shepherds'', by Abraham Hondius | Hendrik Hondius I |
Johann Bayer copied the southern constellations from a Plancius/Hondius globe in his 1603 Uranometria star atlas, crediting charting to a "Petrus Theodori", but not acknowledging their earlier publication, and is therefore often mistakenly credited for introducing them.