The First Issue of this 17th century Dutch map of the Turkish Empire

HONDIUS, Jodocus.

Turcici Imperii Imago.
Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius, 1606, FIRST EDITION, Latin text. Old colour. 365 x 490mm.

The Turkish Empire, including Greece, Arabia and North Africa, with a title cartouche featuring a portrait of Sultan Mahumet, the Turkish ruler who captured Constantinople in 1453.
This is the first issue of a map engraved by Jodocus Hondius for his edition of 'Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas Sive Cosmographicæ Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura'. A fine example.

KOEMAN: 1:101.
Stock ID : 22640