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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, 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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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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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.
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[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.
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Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
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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.
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Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
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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.
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