Atlas Minor, das ist ein kurtz jedoch grundtliche beschreibung der gantzen welt und aller ihrer theyl...Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) & Jodocus Hondius (1563-1611). Amsterdam, 1609. Guidance: Ketterer Kunst, 2015, 18,000 EUR. Oblong 4to., (7 x 9 2/8 inches) Engraved title-page (from the first edition, Amsterdam 1607), allegorical plate depicting the three fates and 152 engraved maps, all with fine hand-color in full (lacking the printed German title-page and pages 5-7 "Ein kurtze...", engraved title-page torn and repaired with loss, allegorical plate and first 7 maps with marginal tears and other faults repaired, some heavy mostly marginal staining). Contemporary Dutch blind-stamped vellum (rebacked and soiled). First German edition of the "Atlas Minor", first published in Latin in Amsterdam in 1607, and intended as a reduced version of Gerard Mercator's folio atlas "Atlas sive Cosmographia", 1606. This smaller atlas was a huge success for Hondius and his partners Cornelius Claesz and Johannes Janssonius, and editions were published not only in Latin, and German as here, but also in French, Dutch, and eventually in Russian, Turkish and English. Including one map not published in the first edition "Cambria sive Wallia", and thirteen maps relating to America. Burden 153; Koeman II me 188; Philips 425.