Europa recens descripta.
by Blaeu, Willem Janszoon:
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Amsterdam, c. 1640. Copper engraving, 41.5 x 56 cms, original hand-colour, some oxidisation, French text on verso. Blaeu's 'carte à figure' map of Europe, with ten costume vignettes and nine city views around the edges and galleys, galleons, sea monsters, bears and lions spread around the map. Of particular interest are the placenames on Greenland relating to Frobisher's voyage of 1576, including Queen Elizabeth's Foreland. Frobisher believed he had found the Friesland of the Zeno Brothers, but Blaeu has depicted it as a separate entity. The Blaeu firm was official cartographer to the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and Blaeu globes were carried on all VOC vessels; its map-making was of the highest quality at a time when the Low Countries were at the forefront of the international market. Map
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bryars and Bryars (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7725
- Title
- Europa recens descripta.
- Author
- Blaeu, Willem Janszoon:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam
- Date Published
- c. 1640
- Bookseller catalogs
- Europe;
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Glossary
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- Galleys
- A pre-publication state of a book. A galley proof edition has already undergone all basic edits for content and corrections, but...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.