Copper engraving, mm 425x535, latin text on verso. Elegant and pleasant map, taken from Atlas Novus, enriched by a beautiful cartouche with coats of arms. Based on Bure's important map, published in 1626, a 6-sheet map of Scandinavia. A surveyor and mathematician, important figure in the history of Swedish cartography, Bure compiled an important map of the northern part of Sweden and the first separately printed map of the country and for serving as the first director of the Swedish land survey. Medium example with discoloration of paper and brownings. W. Blaeu, an astronomer and pupil of Tycho Brahe, founded a workshop for the construction of globes in 1599; almost immediately he started to publish maps as well, leading in 1630 to the creation of the first atlas 'Atlantis Appendix' and five years later, of 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.