Venezuela with the Southern Part of New Andalusia.

Hondius

1612-01-01

map

Library of Congress

This is a historical map of Venezuela and the surrounding regions, featuring topographical details, settlements, and decorative allegorical figures. This is a historical map of Venezuela and the surrounding regions, featuring topographical details, settlements, and decorative allegorical figures. This 17th-century map of Venezuela and a part of New Andalusia, provinces of the Spanish Empire located in present-day Venezuela, is a copy of an earlier map published in Amsterdam by Henricus Hondius (1597--1651). Hondius was the son of Jodocus Hondius (1563--1612), a Flemish cartographer and engraver who settled in Amsterdam in about 1593 and established a business that produced globes and the first large maps of the world. In 1604 Hondius acquired the plates for Mercator's world atla