HONDIUS. Geography shortened by Pierre BERTIUS. Avec des belles cartes géographiques de nouveau tirées et exactement taillez par Iudocus Hondius, avec privilège. Amsterdam, Hondius, 1618. In-8 oblong (22x14x6 cm). 829 pp. Bound in contemporary full vellum, boards decorated with a cold-stamped framing motif with a large central fleuron, edges gilt. The work is divided into seven books, the illustration includes 217 full-page colour engraved maps after Hondius + 1 compass rose, period colours. (missing vellum on the lower cover of the binding and on the spine - missing the title leaf and the following leaf with the privilege, missing the last 4 leaves of the table, missing the 7th leaf of the text containing the odes by Bertius and Hondius, missing the leaf paginated 771-772, tear on folio 670, half of the folio and the map on page 642 are missing - a few small rings or wet spots in the margins which are not serious - lower margin chipped on the last 7 folios - the maps as a whole are in excellent condition). Expert: François Giard