T´Amstelredam By Jan Janßen/ Pascaart vande Zee-Custen van Finmarken…

Title

T´Amstelredam By Jan Janßen/ Pascaart vande Zee-Custen van Finmarken…

Description

Map shows the Baltc Sea with Finland, Lapland and partly Russia.

ca. 1660

Artist

Janssonius (1588-1664)

Johannes Janssonius (Jansson)( 1588- 1664) Amsterdam, was born in Arnhem, the son of Jan Janszoon the Elder, a publisher and bookseller. In 1612 he married Elisabeth de Hondt, the daughter of Jodocus Hondius. He produced his first maps in 1616 of France and Italy. In 1623 Janssonius owned a bookstore in Frankfurt am Main, later also in Danzig, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Königsberg, Geneva and Lyon. In the 1630s he formed a partnership with his brother in law Henricus Hondius, and together they published atlases as Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius. Under the leadership of Janssonius the Hondius Atlas was steadily enlarged. Renamed Atlas Novus, it had three volumes in 1638, one fully dedicated to Italy. 1646 a fourth volume came out with ""English County Maps"", a year after a similar issue by Willem Blaeu. Janssonius' maps are similar to those of Blaeu, and he is often accused of copying from his rival, but many of his maps predate those of Blaeu and/or covered different regions. By 1660, at which point the atlas bore the appropriate name ""Atlas Major"", there were 11 volumes, containing the work of about a hundred credited authors and engravers. It included a description of ""most of the cities of the world"" (Townatlas), of the waterworld (Atlas Maritimus in 33 maps), and of the Ancient World (60 maps). The eleventh volume was the Atlas of the Heavens by Andreas Cellarius. Editions were printed in Dutch, Latin, French, and a few times in German.

Historical Description

The Baltic Sea, internationally known as the Baltic Sea (v Mare Balticum), is an inland sea of the Atlantic Ocean in Europe and, unlike the North Sea, is not a marginal sea of this ocean. It is predominantly a brackish sea, whereby a higher salt and oxygen content can be observed in the western Baltic Sea due to the water exchange with the Atlantic and North Sea. The countries bordering the Baltic Sea are Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Historically, the border ran through the Belt Sea, as the Kingdom of Denmark levied the Sund toll at the entrances to the Baltic Sea. The toll station in the Öresund was Kronborg Castle near Helsingør. In the Great Belt, it was collected at Nyborg. For the Little Belt, the Sundzoll was called the Stromzoll or Beltzoll and was levied there since the founding of the fortress of Fredericia in 1650.