BLAEU WILLEM
Ducato di Modena Regio et Carpi .
Date: Amsterdam,1640 about
Modena-Reggio Emilia
Subject: Modena Reggio Emilia
750,00 €
Copper engraving, original colour, 400x460. Elegant map from the original by Magini. A good example with waterstain in bottom white margin. W. Blaeu, born in Alkmaar in 1571, studied astronomy by Tycho Brahe and founded a business in 1599 as a globe and instrument maker. He immediately expanded the business publishing maps and in 1630 the first atlas “Atlantis appendix” and five years later the “Atlas novus“. After his death in 1638, his son Joan reached publication of the major work of the family, the “Atlas maior” in 11 volumes. in 1672 a great fire destroyed the Blaeu’s printing house.
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