Copper engraving, contemporary colour, mm 382x500, latin text on verso. Elegant and pleasant map of Flanders, depicting the region of Bruges and Ghent, taken from Atlas Novus, enriched by a fine cartouche at the bottom.Very good specimen. W. Blaeu, an astronomer and pupil of Tycho Brahe, founded a workshop for the construction of globes in 1599. Almost immediately he also started publishing maps, leading in 1630 to the creation of the first atlas 'Atlantis Appendix' and five years later, the first edition in two volumes of the 'Atlas Novus'. After his death in 1638, his son Johan published the famous 11-volume 'Atlas Maior' in 1662. In 1672, a fire destroyed the workshop and marked the end of the business