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[Bertius, Petrus, 1565-1629, cartographer., Lauremberg, Johann, 1590-1658]
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2 maps on one sheet: First map at the top is IMPERII CAROLI MAGNI by Petrus Bertius, 1630, 66cm x 99cm. Cpperplate engraving on 4 sheets, hand colour. Annotated with events from Charlemagne's era, each dated in Roman numerals and placed in the relevant geographical area, e.g. Gudfred's invasion of Frisia (810), Charlemagne's visit to Boulogne (811), and the sacking of Antwerp (835). The note on Portugal, meanwhile carries the date c. 1010. Frankish names for the winds at the left, around a compass. Title and dedication to Louis XIII of France in the top right corner, in a cartouche topped with the mythical arms of Charlemagne (Holy Roman Eagle impaled with the Valois fleur-de-lys), surmounted with the closed Imperial crown. List of the Frankish names for the months at the bottom, titled 'Nomina Mensivm Francica'. Second map below is Græcia Antiqua by Johann Lauremberg, 1660, 89cm x119cm. 1 map : copperplate engraving on 5 misaligned sheets, hand colour. Scale bars and title in the top right corner, in a cartouche flanked by peasant figures and livestock. In this copy the engraved title has been hidden behind an oval piece of paper inscribed 'GRÆCIA ANTIQUA'. Additional scale bars at the bottom of the map, on a sheet held above the waves by humanoid sea creatures. The substitute title has been lifted from Lauremberg's description of ancient Greece, which was published by Jansson in 1660 in a volume illustrated with historical maps. Although this is also an ancient map its title does not advertise the fact (moreover, the inclusion of a peasant dressed as an Ottoman would suggest the contrary), and the change of title may have been motivated by a desire to counter any uncertainty over the map's subject, perhaps in order to justify its pairing with the historical map of Carolingian Europe displayed immediately above.
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Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, publisher.
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 8 sheets, hand colour. Oriented with north at the left. Inset map of the journeys of Abraham in the top left corner, titled 'PEREGRINATIO ABRAHÆ'. Inset map of Moses' Exodus in the top right, titled 'ITINERA ET MANSIONES DESERTI.' Map dotted with numerous biblical and hagiographic episodes, for example St George's fight against the dragon, Noli Me Tangere, and the Sacrifice of Elijah. Map set above Latin and Dutch descriptions of the Holy Land, both carrying Blaeu's imprint.
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[Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, publisher., Marggraf, Georg, 1610-1644, Baerle, Caspar van, 1584-1648, Post, Frans Jansz, 1612-1680]
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 9 sheets, hand colour. Oriented with north at the right. Title at the top of the map, framed by two fruit swags. Suspended below the title are the arms of the Netherlands (left), Dutch Brazil (centre) and the Prince of Orange (right). Four rows of images in the Brazilian interior (top right), the top row devoted to local flora and fauna, the lower three to landscape views of indigenous settlements and practices. These illustrations were supplied by Frans Post, one of the artists John Maurice encouraged to settle in Dutch Brazil. See J. de Sousa-Leão, 'Frans Post in Brazil', Burlington Magazine, LXXX, 1942, pp. 58-61. Introduction to the map in a large cartouche at the far left, surrounded by martial arms, cornucopias made of thick skin (including one which emits steam), and the arms of John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1604-79), governor of the Dutch possessions in Brazil between 1637 and 1644. Scaled inset map of the Brazilian coastline below the cartouche ('MARITIMA BRASILIÆ UNIVERSÆ'), on a scroll made of the same, thick material. Key on a sheet at the bottom edge of the map. Cartouche in the bottom right corner, titled 'PRÆFECTURÆ DE PARAIBA, ET RIO GRANDE'. Accompanied by three descriptions of Dutch Brazil below the map, in Latin (top), Dutch (middle) and French (bottom). The text is based on Caspar Barlaeus' (see note below). In the 1630s Blaeu replaced Visscher as the favoured cartographer of the Dutch West India Company, just in time to benefit from the Company's forays into the newly conquered territories of Dutch Brazil. In 1642 he produced a map of the colony for his new atlas, and six years later he published this large wall map, which was supplemented with Post's illustrations and Georg Marggraf's researches into the Brazilian interior.
Author
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, cartographer, publisher.
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Key at the left, on a skin draped over a bamboo frame. Details on Blaeu's publishing privileges in a cartouche in the bottom left corner, surmounted by a deity and flanked by figures in oriental dress. Two joined cartouches in the bottom right corner, containing the scale bars and a dedication to Johann Philipp von Schönborn (1605-73), Archbishop-Elector of Mainz (r. 1647-73). Bottom and sides of the map framed by a Latin description of China, which ends with Blaeu's imprint, dated 1658.
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Allardt, Hugo, -1691
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 9 sheets, hand colour. Title at the top, on a banner flanked by two fruit swags. Decorative cartouche in the bottom left, containing four dedications to burgomasters of Amsterdam: Cornelis de Graeff (1599-1664), Gerrit Schaap, Nicolas Corver (1589-1654) and Francis van der Meer. Inset maps of the western and eastern hemispheres in the bottom right, surrounded by indigenous animals and natives, who hold the arms of Amsterdam above the two spheres. Below, on a plinth, is a scale grid and Allard's imprint. To the left, inside the Austrlian interior, are two views of native figures in tropical settings. Accompanied at the bottom by a description of east Asia, also with Allard's imprint, titled 'Algemeene Beschryvinge VAN OOST-INDIEN.'
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Nicolaas ten Have
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 4 sheets, hand colour. Relief shown pictorially. Title in a cartouche in the top right corner, below the arms of Overijssel. Small key at the right edge. Scale bars in the bottom left corner, on a sheet held by a soldier and a fisherman. Language note: Latin, with the scale bars in Latin and Dutch.
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Danckerts, Cornelis, approximately 1603-1656
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 4 sheets, hand colour. Scale bars in the top left, held above the waves by two sea creatures. Title in the top right, on a cartouche flanked by a personification, possibly of destruction, and an elderly armed knight. Perched above the ensemble are the arms of Cleves, Gelderland, Zutphen and 's-Hertogenbosch, arranged by winged putti. Imprint at the right edge, below the title. Language note: French, with a bilingual title in French and Dutch.
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Le Vasseur de Beauplan, Guillaume
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Oriented with north at the bottom. 1 map : copperplate engraving on 8 sheets, hand colour. Section of the Dniepr inset on a curtain in the top left corner of the map. Arms of the Kingdom of Poland at the top edge. Two tablets at the bottom of the map, one contianing the scale bars, the other a key, both surrounded by figures in regional dress. Born in Normandy, Beauplan entered the service of the Polish Monarchy as a soldier in 1630, and in 1637-8 he was sent to Ukraine, where he collected material for the first descriptive map of that country, which he completed in 1639. In that same year he also led an expedition down the Dniepr River, and over the next few years he added more regions to his map: the southern part of the Dniepr, Podole, Pokucie and Wołyń. In 1645 he received permission from King Wiadyslaw IV to have some of his researches engraved as a wall or ‘special’ map, which was undertaken in Gdańsk by Willem Hondius, another émigré in the service of the Polish court. According to the dates on the map Hondius finished the plates in 1650, by which time Beauplan had returned to Poland and was able to make final alterations to the plates. A smaller but more extensive map of Beauplan’s was also engraved by Hondius in 1654, which was soon copied, notably by the Blaeus.
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Hondius, Hendrik, 1597-1651
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Oriented with north at the top left. Inset map of Soest and its environs at the top of the map. Dedications to George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595-1640) and Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1578-1653) in the top right corner, on a cartouche inset into a stele crowned with the combined arms of the Duchies of Jülich, Cleves and Berg. Below, at the foot of the structure, two putti support a compass. Scale bars at the bottom left, in a small cartouche which also contains Hondius' imprint. Map framed at the sides and bottom with a Dutch description of the three duchies, which also carries Hondius' imprint and the date 1636. As this map was published in Amsterdam the 'Henricus Hondius' responsible for this map must be Henricus II, and not his Hagenaar namesake.
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[Dou, Jan Janszoon, 1615-1682, Broeckhuysen, Steven van]
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 12 sheets, hand colour. Scale bar at the bottom edge. This sheet has been cropped along the top, removing the title, and leaving only the lower parts of the decorative swags.
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Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 20 sheets, hand colour. Oriented with north at the right. Arms of Holland in a decorative cartouche in the top right corner, flanked by sea deities riding sea creatures, with the arms of Aquitaine inset at the bottom (for a similar motif see Maps K.A.R.(27.)). Scale bars in the bottom left, in a cartouche. Dedication to Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1584-1647) in the bottom right corner, on a sheet surmounted with a trophy of instruments, weapons and fruit around Frederick Henry's arms. Below, either side of the dedication, are pendant figures of a fisherman (left) and farmer (right), seated among their instruments and produce. This is the right half of Colom's map, which was too big to fit onto a single page of the atlas (for the first part see Maps K.A.R.(28.)). On account of the dedication it was presumably finished before Frederick Henry's death in March 1647.
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Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673, publisher.
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 20 sheets, hand colour. Oriented with north at the right. Title in the bottom left corner, in a decorative cartouche beneath a column in a sunburst (a pun on Colom's name). This is the left half of Colom's map, which was too big to fit onto a single page of the atlas. For the second part see Maps K.A.R.(29.).
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[Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679, Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638, Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587-1652]
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 20 sheets, hand colour. Oriented with north at the right. Arms of Holland in the top right corner, held above the waves by two bearded sea gods, one of whom also carries a smaller shield containing the arms of Aquitaine. Above is an inscription referring to Dirk I, long held to be the first Count of Holland, who was descended from the Counts of Aquitaine (see also Maps. K.A.R. (29.)). Tablet in the bottom left corner, listing one-hundred points indicated by figures. Scale bars on a cartouche at the bottom edge, accompanied by a gentleman with a pair of calipers and surveyor's chain (left), a trident, fishing rods and nets (centre), and a bearded man with a circle and other pair of calipers (right). The fishing equipment is surely a pun on Visscher's name, and similar motifs appear in several of his maps. Dedication to the Dutch provinces in a cartouche in the bottom right corner, surmounted with the enthroned personification of Holland, who holds a Dutch banner in her right hand and a small figure of winged Victory in her left, in imitation of Athena Parthenos. At her feet is the Dutch lion, and below, at the sides of the cartouche, is an armed knight and Neptune, apparently representing war and commerce. Row of nine town plans of cities in North or South Holland below the map, from left to right: Dordrecht, Haarlem, Delft, Leiden, Amsterdam, Gouda, Rotterdam, Alkmaar and Enkhuizen. These designs were copied from Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn's Theatrum Sive Hollandiae (Amsterdam, 1632), but by the time this map was published in the 1650s several were outdated, notably Amsterdam, which had expanded in the intervening decades. Woodcut title below, sandwiched in between the town plans and a description of Holland, which carries the imprint of Jacob Aertz Colom ('boek-verkooper op 't Water, 1640'). G. Schilder, Monumenta Cartographia Neerlandica, vol. 5, Alphen, 1986, pp. 315-9 (this state, this copy p. 316) British Museum, Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829
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Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 9 sheets, hand colour. Title in the top left, on a cartouche below the arms of Zeeland, which are held above the waves by two humanoid sea creatures carrying oars. Scale bar (blooise roede) at the left edge, below the title. Second scale bar towards the bottom of the map, also in blooise roede, on a long, floating tablet occupied by a woman, a seal, and a fisherman with a rod. This last detail recurs in several of Visscher's maps, and is surely a double pun on both his name (the Dutch for fisherman is 'visser') and the unit of measurement (roede, or rod).
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Danckerts, Cornelis, approximately 1603-1656
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 9 sheets, hand colour. Oriented with north at the right. Celebratory Latin verse to the Netherlands in the top right corner. Either side are four soldiers, including William the Silent, and above is a row of deities and allegorical figures: Faith, Apollo, Plenty, the Dutch Lion, ridden by a woman, Health, Fortitude, Mercury, and the Dutch Maiden, with the hat of freedom on a pole. Below, at the bottom of the ensemble, is a frieze of the arms of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic, each one supported by two putti. Dedication at the bottom edge of the map, in a cartouche surrounded by putti carrying fish, and crowned with the arms of the Dutch Republic. Imprint and scale bars in the bottom right corner, accompanied by pastoral figures and animals.
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Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679, cartographer.
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Title in the top right, in a cartouche crowned with the ducal coronet of Brabant. Scale bar (rijnlandse roeden) in the bottom left, accompanied by a fisherman holding two rods and a pair of calipers. This detail recurs in several Visscher's maps, and is surely a pun on both his name (the Dutch for fisherman is 'visser') and the unit of measurement ('roede', or rod). See also 004842055 and 004967543.
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Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Title in the top left corner, on a banner held above the water by tritons and winged putti, and crowned with the arms of Flanders. Illustration of Neptune on his sea chariot, accompanied by Peace, who carries a large shield impaled with the arms of the Spanish Netherlands and United Provinces. The motif is completed by a banner attached to Neptune's trident, which bears the date 1648, a reference to the Treaty of Münster and the conclusion of the Eighty Years' War. Scale bar (rijnlandse roeden) at the bottom, accompanied by a fisherman holding two rods and a pair of calipers. This detail recurs in several of Visscher's maps, and is surely a pun on both his name (the Dutch for fisherman is 'visser') and the unit of measurement (roede, or rod). See also 004807865 and 004967543.
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[Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638, Gerritsz., Hessel, approximately 1581-1632, Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587-1652, Vinckeboons, David, 1576-1629]
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 12 sheets, hand colour. Oriented with north at the right. Title above the map. Royal arms of France in the top left corner, surrounded by the Order of St Michael. Illustration of the arms of the Seventeen Provinces at the top of the map, on a panel titled 'De wapenen der Zeventien Nederlanden.' Decorative cartouche in the top right corner, framing an oval tablet inscribed with a dedication to the Dutch provinces. Enthroned above is the allegorical figure of Regina Belgica, who holds a merchant ship and sceptre, and is flanked in Salomonic fashion by two lions, who bear the arms of the Spanish Netherlands (left) and United Provinces (right, represented by the seven arrows of Utrecht). Below, either side of the inscription, are four deities: Mars and Minerva at the left, and Mercury and Neptune at the right - appropriately the side to which Regina Belgica holds the merchant ship. At the base of the ensemble is an smaller oval tablet, left empty, beneath which is a swag composed of arms at the left, and instruments at the right - cartographic, astronomical and musical. Secondary cartouche at the left edge, containing a key and an index of the number of towns and villages in each province. At the sides, personifications of Geometry and Painting have been converted into terms. Imprint and scale bars in the bottom right corner, in a third cartouche surmounted by a sundial and armilliary sphere, and two putti brandishing scribes, calipers and rulers. Row of ten numbered equestrian portraits along the top edge, depicting the rulers of both Netherlands from Philip II onwards: Philip II (1527-98); Margaret of Parma (1522-86); Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba (1507-82); Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga (1528-76); John of Austria (1547-78); Matthias, Archduke of Austria, and later Holy Roman Emperor (1557-1619); Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma (1545-92); Francis, Duke of Anjou (1555-84); William the Silent, Prince of Orange (1533-84); Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532/3-88). The other three portraits from this set are missing. Map flanked at the sides by two columns of ten city prospects, which were also engraved by Gerritsz after Claes Jansz Visscher. The left column is composed of views of Antwerp, Ghent, Nijmegen, Limburg, Namur, Mons, Zutphen, Mechelen, Groningen and the Palace of Coudenberg, while its pendant illustrates Brussels, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Middelburg, Utrecht, Arras, Leeuwarden, Deventer, Dordrecht, and the Binnenhof. In other copies the placement of the top five views from both sides is reversed. The same is true of Klencke's copy of Blaeu's German atlas, for which see 004848100. . G. Schilder, Monumenta Cartographia Neerlandica, vol. 1, Alphen, 1986, pp. 122-4, including this copy.
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[Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, Bure, Anders, 1571-1646]
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Title in the top left corner, in an extremely rich cartouche surmounted by the arms of the Wittelsbach kings of Sweden, which are flanked by two smaller shields bearing the three Swedish crowns and the blazon of the House of Bjelbo. Below, at the base of the cartouche, are the arms of the House of Vasa, while surrounding the ensemble is a chain formed of the arms of the Swedish provinces. Scale bars on a tablet in the bottom right corner, flanked by two hunters, who watch over deer and rams sleeping on top of the tablet. Framed at the bottom and sides by a u-shaped description of the Artic Circle and Kingdom of Sweden, which carries the imprint of Henricus Hondius. As Blaeu acknowledges, this map is closely based on Anders Bure's 1626 map of Sweden, which was a significant improvement on all earlier surveys of Scandinavia.
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[Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, Mercator, Rumold, approximately 1545-1599, Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638, Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587-1652]
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Title above the map. Illustration of Neptune in the top left corner, accompanied by a (?) Dutch knight and two mermans blowing conch horns. Arms of the Holy Roman Empire in the bottom left, above Joan Blaeu's imprint. Three scale bars in the bottom left corner, next to a winged putto with a caliper. An additional scale bar is hidden at the very bottom of the map, to the right of the Adriatic Sea. Row of eight equestrian portraits along the top of the map, depicting the electors of the Empire, from left to right: Maxmilian Heinrich of Bavaria (1621-88), Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and Chancellor of the Empire in Italy; Johann Philipp von Schönborn (1605-73), Archbishop-Elector of Mainz and Chancellor of the Empire in Germany; Karl Kaspar von der Leyen (1618-76), Archbishop-Elector of Trier and Chancellor of the Empire in Burgundy; Leopold I (1640-1705), Holy Roman Emperor; Charles I Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine; Ferdinand Maria (1636-79), Elector of Bavaria; Johann George II (1613-80), Elector of Saxony; Friedrich Wilhelm (1620-88), Elector of Brandenburg. Each portrait is printed on a separate sheet glued to the map, and the order in which the electors are presented here differs from other copies. Map flanked at the sides by two columns of ten small city prospects, which are engraved on two plates by Claes Jansz Visscher, often after designs by Braun and Hogenberg. The left column contains views of Prague, Speyer, Basel, Augsburg, Strasbourg, Brunswick, Heidelberg, Lübeck, Erfurt and Mainz, its pendant Frankfurt (Main), Nuremberg, Ulm, Vienna, Regensburg, Worms, Cologne, Leipzig, Trier and Hamburg. In other copies of the wall map this arrangment is reversed.
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[Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638, Magini, Giovanni Antonio, 1555-1617, Lastman, Pieter, 1583-1633]
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Tablet in the top right corner, inscribed with Blaeu's dedication to Jacob van Dijck (or Dyck), Swedish Ambassador to the Dutch Republic between 1614 and 1620. Seated above this inscription is a personification of Italy, enthroned, like the Madonna, in the middle of a rich assortment of treasure curated by two putti, one half artistic, the other martial. Italy herself rests her left foot on a celestial globe, holds a laurel wreath and sceptre in each hand, and balances four crowns on her lap, including the papal crown and corno ducale, which represent the principal states of Italy. To the left of this group are the arms of the principal rulers of Italy: the Doge of Genoa, Cosimo II de' Medici (Tuscany), Philip III of Spain (Milan and Naples), and Paul V (Papal States). Completing this dense ensemble are four sea and river gods below the dedication, representing, from left to right, the Tuscan sea, the Tiber, Po, and the Gulf of Venice, whose deity is also accompanied by the Lion of St Mark. Sea populated with numerous ships, monstrous fishes and tritons. In the left half, off the coast of Lazio, Neptune travels across the sea in his chariot, while at the far left two tritons carry the arms of Corsica and Sardinia. Imprint in the bottom left corner of the map. Seven scale bars in the bottom right corner, in another richly decorated cartouche surmounted with a small map of the Roman Empire. Surrounding the map are various supplementary descriptions of Italy: six town prospects at the top (Rome, Milan, Naples, Venice, Genoa and Florence), two sets of six costume studies at the sides, and a brief national survey at the bottom, by Giovanni Antonio Magini.
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Tassin, Christophe Nicolas, -1660
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1 map : 6 joined copperplate engravings, hand colour. Six decorative cartouches around the edges, containing the regional titles and scale bars. These have been engraved onto smaller plates which have either been been printed onto a separate sheet or on top of the map itself. Only the large cartouche in the bottom right was engraved on the same plate as the map, although the title it carries was engraved on a separate plate.
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Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Title at the top, outside the map. Arms of Louis XIV in the top right corner (both France and Navarre, set into one shield). Single scale bar at the bottom edge, over the Mediterranean sea. Map surrounded by three descriptions of France on separate pieces of paper, in Latin (left), Dutch (bottom), and French (right). All carry Blaeu's imprint at the bottom.
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[Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667, Tavernier, Melchior, 1594-1665, Cordier, Robert]
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Dedication in the top right corner, to Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême (1573-1650), illegitimate son of Charles IX. Short introduction to the map, including its classical sources, in the bottom left corner, in a decorative cartouche flanked by Mercury and Hercules, who stand on the branches of a shrub. Below, obscuring the trunk issuing these branches, is subsidiary cartouche noting Sanson's royal privilege. Two small scale bars along the bottom edge of the map. Cordier's signature in the bottom right, on a small sheet suspended from a hook. Surrounded by Latin descriptions of the regions of Gaul, formed into a u-shape around the map, with an extract from the text of the royal privilege in the bottom right corner, above Tavernier's imprint.
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Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Royal arms of Philip IV and III in the top right corner, accompanied by supporters. Scale bars in a cartouche in the bottom left corner. Small tablet along the bottom edge, containing a note on the use of classical and vernacular names, and the symbols used to denote bishoprics, archbishoprics, and university towns. Amrorial of the kingdom of Spain in the bottom right corner, arranged around an oval titled 'INSIGNIA REGNORVM HISPANIÆ'. Above, the lion of León holds a sword and the arms of the three constituent kingdoms of Spain: Castile, León and Aragon. Map surrounded by three descriptions of Spain, in Latin (left), Spanish (bottom), and French (right).
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Danckerts, Cornelis, approximately 1603-1656
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 12 sheets, hand colour. Arms of the Tudor monarchs in the top right corner, on top of a decorative cartouche containing the title and dedication to Michael de Blond (or Blon, or Oblon), the Swedish Ambassador to England. Surrounding the inscription are various putti, who ride a dolphin (left), play with armour, sit on sheep (right), or support fruit swags hanging above Blond's arms (a saltire). Scale bars and imprint in a decorative cartouche in the bottom left. This is an impression of the first state of Danckerts' wall map, which was revised and reissued by his son Dancker around 1660. Confusingly, the 'Sanson' credited in the title is not Nicolas Sanson, Danckerts' famous contemporary, but probably Christopher Saxton, whose map of 1583 was clearly one of Danckerts' cartographic sources. In a sign of his reliance on Saxton, Danckerts has reproduced the (now outdated) Tudor arms in exactly the same place as Saxton, who in turn derived this detail from still earlier models, for example the small map of England by Richard Lyne (c. 1574). According to Rodney Shirley, Saxton's sheet was reissued sometime in the 1640s, and its timely reappearance might have spurred Danckerts to emulate it.
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Allardt, Hugo, -1691
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Oriented with north at the right. Arms of the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland in the top left corner, suspended on ribbons issuing from the longitude bar. Inner title in the bottom left corner of the map, in a confidently etched cartouche decorated with a ram's skull and two tiger heads, which support a seated wingless putto. Crowned arms of France, Flanders, the Dutch Republic and Norway along the bottom edge, over the appropriate territories. Inset map of Denmark at the bottom edge of the map, also oriented with north at the right. The framing cartouche is adorned with the arms of Christian IV of Denmark (?) and Allardt's imprint. Scale bars in the bottom right corner, in a cartouche adorned with two putti and a ram - a counterpoint to the ram's skull in the opposite cartouche. Map surrounded by three descriptions of Britain, in English (left), Dutch (bottom), and Latin (right). This is one of two surviving copies of what was only the third wall map covering the entire British Isles, which appeared almost a century after the first (Mercator, 1564). As Rodney Shirley has noted, Allardt used engravings by Stefano della Bella as source material for the designs of his cartouches. The distinctive tiger's heads above the title, for example, are based on an illustration from the fourth and final plate of a series of animal heads by della Bella, which was published by Pierre Mariette I sometime around 1641.
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Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Inset map of the Tierra del Fuego in the bottom left corner, in a cartouche topped with a voluted pediment and flanked with fruit swags suspended from consoles. Information on distance on a tablet at the bottom of the map, above Blaeu's imprint, with four birds perching on the cornice at the top. Title in the bottom right corner, surmounted by a personification of America, bow and club in hand, who straddles the remains of a cadaver. Below, either side of the title, are two river gods and an assortment of animals and figures in native dress. Map surrounded by three descriptions of the continent, in Latin (left), Dutch (bottom) and French (right), each carrying the imprint of Jodocus Hondius.
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Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Decorative cartouche in the top left corner, containing a circular map of the Arctic oriented with north at the right. Accompanied by a short Latin description in the left half of the cartouche, over a blank portion of the map. Title in the bottom left corner, on a tablet surmounted by a personification America, who brandishes a bow and arrow and hosts a parrot in her feather crown. Below, flanking the tablet, are two unnamed river gods, accompanied by indigenous animals and various figures in regional dresses. Information on distance in the bottom right corner, above Blaeu's imprint. Map surrounded by three descriptions of North America, in Latin (left), Dutch (bottom) and French (right), each carrying the imprint of Jodocus Hondius.
Author
[Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, Blommaert, Samuel, 1583-1651]
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Method of distance calculation presented in a cartouche in the top right. Small fictive sheet in the bottom left, held above the waves by sea putti, carrying an acknowledgement to Samuel Blommaert for information about the Cabo Blanco and Cabo Negro (Angola). Title in the bottom right, on a cartouche surmounted with a personification of Africa, and flanked by two river gods and various figures in regional dress (North African at the left, Sub-Saharan at the right). Map framed by three descriptions of the continent, in Latin (left), Dutch (bottom) and French (right), each ending with the imprint of Jodocus Hondius. Samuel Blommaert served three terms as director of the Dutch West India Company, and he also oversaw voyages to North America and Africa. His papers proved to be a fruitful source of information about the west coast of Africa, and even after his death in 1651 he continued to be credited by cartographers, particularly for supplying details about the two capes mentioned by Blaeu in his acknowledgement (for a similar posthumous note see Maps K.Top.117.30.). Among the numerous animals depicted in the African interior are two rhinoceros based on Albrecht Dürer's famously misleading woodcut, which for centuries remained the stock image of the animal.
Author
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
Note
1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Two inset maps in the bottom left corner, of the Bonin (?) and Solomon Islands. Title at the bottom, on a tablet surmounted with a personification of Asia (?), below which two unnamed river gods lie in front of animals and small groups of standing figures in local costume. Map framed by three descriptions of Southeast Asia in Latin (left), Dutch (bottom) and French (right), each ending with the imprint of Jodocus Hondius. Notes on measurements in a cartouche to the right of the title group, with Blaeu's signature below.
Author
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
Note
1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Title in the upper left corner of the map, in the central compartment of a cartouche illustrating a personification of Asia at the top, costume studies at the sides, and two unnamed river gods at the bottom. Information on measurements in the bottom left. Map framed by three descriptions of Asia in Latin (left), Dutch (bottom) and French (right), titled 'NOVA ASIÆ DESCRIPTIO', 'BESCHRYVINGE VAN ASIA', and 'Nouvelle Description de toute L'ASIE.' Each text ends with the imprint of Jodocus Hondius.
Author
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
Note
1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Dedication to the civic council of Amsterdam in the top left corner, in a small cartouche supporting the city's arms. Cartouche at the left, explaining the methods used to calculate distance. Title at the bottom left, on a tablet surmounted with an allegorical figure of Europe, and flanked at the sides by the reclining gods of the Danube and Rhine, around whom are gathered representatives of various professions, including soldiers, burghers, scholars, sailors, labourers, and, at the right, cartographers. Note on the measurement of longitude at the right, in between an armilliary sphere and a small circular world map (centered on Europe and Africa). Map framed by three country-by-country descriptions of Europe, in Latin (left), Dutch (bottom) and French (right).
Author
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, cartographer, publisher.
Note
1 map : copperplate engraving on 12 sheets, hand colour. Description in a cartouche in the bottom left of the globe. This circular map filled the left half of Blaeu's enormous terrestrial wall map, which was published under the title 'Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula'. Although undated, the dedication to Gaspar de Bracamonte Guzmán, a Spanish representative at the Treaty of Westphalia, probably places the publication sometime around the conclusion of that treaty in 1648. As new geographical information continued to arrive in the Netherlands the map was revised multiple times, resulting in at least four different states. This is an impression of the first, pulled before Blaeu made major revisions to the other half of the plate. As published, Blaeu's two maps were framed in a border filled with smaller terrestrial and astrological maps. The two hemispheres were often extracted and presented as separate sheets, however, and in this case as individual pages of an atlas. In doing so, however, the compilers of the Klencke Atlas reversed the order in which the hemispheres are presented on Blaeu's sheet, presumably to give precedence to Europe.
Author
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
Note
Description in a cartouche in the bottom right of the globe. 1 map : copperplate engraving on 12 sheets, hand colour. Dates estimated. This circular map filled the right half of Blaeu's enormous world map, which was published under the title 'Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula'. Although undated, the dedication to Gaspar de Bracamonte Guzmán, a Spanish representative at the Treaty of Westphalia, probably places the publication sometime around the conclusion of the treaty in 1648. As new information continued to arrive the map was revised multiple times, producing at least four different states. This is an impression of the first, pulled before Blaeu made major revisions to the depiction of China. As published, Blaeu's two maps were framed in a border filled with smaller terrestrial and astrological maps. Judging from the extant copies, the two hemispheres were often extracted from the map and, in this case, presented as separate sheets. In doing so, however, the compilers of the Klencke Atlas reversed the order in which the hemispheres are presented on Blaeu's sheet, presumably to give precedence to Europe.
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