Henricus Hondius II

Henricus Hondius II
Born	1597  Amsterdam
Died	16 August 1651  (aged 53–54) Amsterdam
Occupation	Cartographer publisher printer engraver copper engraver artist visual artist
Parent(s)	Jodocus Hondius  Colette van den Keere
Relatives	Jodocus Hondius II
Academic career

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 cartographers Jodocus Hondius and Colette van den Keere, who had started a map-making business in the city. Henricus obtained the original plates of the Mercator 1569 world map, and he published a 1606 version of it. After his father died in 1612, Henricus co-ran the business with his mother, brother Jodocus II, and brother-in-law Jan Janssonius. In 1621 opened his own company in Amsterdam. The first time his name was mentioned in an atlas was in 1623 when he published the fifth edition of the Mercator–Hondius atlas.

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.
• 
  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