Le theatre du monde, ou, Nouuel atlas [cartographic material]

Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638, Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673 · 1650 · A Amsterdam : Chez Iean Blaev · 231 pictures

A French-language edition of the Blaeu family's world atlas, engraved and printed by Willem Janszoon and Joan Blaeu in Amsterdam in 1650 for merchants, officials and wealthy collectors. The plates are copper-engraved regional maps in hand colour, with scrolled strapwork title cartouches held by putti, crowned heraldic shields, mile-scale panels, and terrain drawn as clumped trees, molehill hills and branching rivers among dense place-name lettering.

Atlases, Dutch

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