1630 MAP OF AFRICA FESSAE REGNUM engraving ANTIQUE Algeria Morocco Gibraltar

Cartographer: Hondius, Jodocus & Henricus (son)

Early copper engraving 17th century map of FESSAE REGNUM,  reduced from the larger edition of the map which appeared in the French Mercator-Jodocus Hondius Atlas Minor in the 1630s.

covers a portion of the Magreb including parts of Algeria, Northern Morocco and the Strait of Gibraltar.

A bold title cartouche with strapwork is embellished by a detailed sailing ship in the Atlantic.


size 6 by 7 1/2"  (including margins 8 by 9")


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Henricus Hondius (1597-1651) was a Dutch engraver and mapmaker, a member of a prominent cartographic family. His father, Jodocus Hondius, was also an engraver and geographer. While working with his father, Henricus was instrumental in the expansion and republishing of Mercator’s atlas, first published in 1595 and republished by Hondius in 1606.   

Upon his father’s death in 1612, Henricus and his brother, Jodocus the Younger, took over the business. He set up his own shop in 1621, where he continued to release new editions of the Mercator atlas. Later, he partnered with his brother-in-law, Jan Janssonius, in continuing to expand and publish Mercator’s atlas, which would become known as the Mercator-Hondius-Janssonius atlas. Born and based in Amsterdam, he died there in 1651.

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