Jansson (Jan) Comitatus Cantabrigiensis

Jansson (Jan) Comitatus Cantabrigiensis, sive Cambridg Shire,

rare county map from the Appendix to Des Nieuwen Atlantis Aenhang (Atlas Novus), with title cartouche lower left, with large costume figures adjacent and lower right, royal arms upper right, engraved map with original hand-colouring in outline, figures and arms fully coloured, 420 x 515mm., Dutch text verso, some splitting at head and foot of central vertical fold, slight showthrough on recto of woodcut tailpiece on verso, a few short splits and minor dampstaining at lower sheet edge, well outside the plate, Amsterdam, [1644].

***One of 11 English county maps re-engraved before the 1646 edition of Atlas Novus, so now rarely seen..