![]() ![]() Three decorative cartouches embellish the map, all with text in Latin. Discovered in 1596 by Willem Barentszoon from Amsterdam in the name of the States General of the Netherlands.’ In the upper right corner in the polar region a brief text concerning the Russian region of Novaya Zemlya states: 'Novaya Zemlya (New Land). The sizes and shapes of land masses in the polar regions are significantly exaggerated. Other geographic misrepresentations include the proportions of various areas of North and South America, including the elongated northwestern coast of North America. The great southern continent is still shown as extending across the entire southern portion of the map, with Tierra del Fuego depicted as part of it. Hand-coloured and double-paged with Latin text on the verso, the map depicts much more than the continents and oceans, and some of the geographic information is of especial interest, representing as it does vast regions of the planet which were yet ill defined as late as the 17 th century. The map is both highly detailed and richly embellished, providing geographic and topographical information as well as beauty to the beholder. Dutch engraver Josua van de Ende reduced this grand map to standard atlas size for Blaeu, retaining and reflecting basically the same geographic information as the original. The map is based on Blaeu’s monumental work dating to 1605 (circa), an oversize double-hemisphere world map of which only one copy is known to be extant. Blaeu’s map was first issued in an atlas and was used continuously by him, despite new knowledge of various parts of the world provided by explorers, until 1662. It is one of the earliest atlas maps to utilize the Mercator projection and one of the more ornate examples of world maps to have been created during that era. This is a fine print reproduction of a true masterpiece world map from the Golden Age of Dutch Cartography. ![]() Date of Original: 1631 (published) Amsterdam ![]()
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