Copper engraving, 393x525 mm, contemporary colour, latin text on verso. A good example on a paper slightly brown and spotted, minor restorations at upper and bottom centrefold Elegant and attractive map, taken from Atlas Novus, enriched with a beautiful cartouche with coats of arms. An excellent, perfectly preserved example. W. Blaeu, an astronomer and student of Tycho Brahe, founded a globe-making workshop in 1599; almost immediately, he began publishing maps, producing the first atlas, the "Atlantis Appendix," in 1630, and the first two-volume edition of the "Atlas Novus," five years later. After his death in 1638, his son Johan edited the celebrated "Atlas Maior," in 11 volumes, in 1662. A fire destroyed the workshop in 1672, marking the end of the business.