Antiquariat Reinhold Berg eK
Wahlenstraße 8
D-93047 Regensburg
phone: +49 - 941 52229
cellphone: +49 - 160 9060 6746
mail: [email protected]

Blaeu, Guijelmus & Joan.

Comitatus Dorcestria, sive Dorsettia Vulgo Anglice Dorsetshire.

Antique Comitatus Dorcestria, sive Dorsettia Vulgo Anglice Dorsetshire.
€495.00

Prices incl. VAT plus shipping costs

On stock,
Delivery time appr. 1-3 workdays

Eigenschaften
  • Blaeu , Amsterdam
  • 1646
  • Copper engraving / Original color.
  • Antique Map, map
  • 1646-66
  • Dorsetshire
  • 385 by 508mm (15 by 20 inches).
  • Koeman Atlantes Neerlandici Vol II / 5240:2
  • 17487
  • In very good condition, a minor ink soiling within the image of the map (in the British Sea). 385 by 508mm (15 by 20 inches).

Article description

Article description

Original antique copper engraved map in fine contemporary colors in outline and wash. A fine and highly decorative map of Dorsetshire in England by the famous Dutch cartgrapher Blaeu. This English county map of Dorsetshire is highly decorative with its figurative and allegoric title cartouche, as well the map is ornated with heraldic family coats of arms. More over we find as an additional decoration ships in the British Sea. On the map itsself are many placenames given, smaller villages or settlements also appear, also rivers, lakes, mountains and woods are also engraved. Joan Blaeu (23 September 1596 – 21 December 1673) was a Dutch cartographer born in Alkmaar, the son of cartographer Willem Blaeu. In 1620 he became a doctor of law but he joined the work of his father. In 1635 they published the Atlas Novus (full title: Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus) in two volumes. Joan and his brother Cornelius took over the studio after their father died in 1638. Joan became the official cartographer of the Dutch East India Company. Blaeu's world map, Nova et Accuratissima Terrarum Orbis Tabula, incorporating the discoveries of Abel Tasman, was published in 1648. This map was revolutionary in that it "depicts the solar system according to the heliocentric theories of Nicolaus Copernicus, which show the earth revolving around the sun.... Although Copernicus's groundbreaking book On the Revolutions of the Spheres had been first printed in 1543, just over a century earlier, Blaeu was the first mapmaker to incorporate this revolutionary heliocentric theory into a map of the world." Blaeu's map was copied for the map of the world set into the pavement of the Groote Burger-Zaal of the new Amsterdam Town Hall, designed by the Dutch architect Jacob van Campen (now the Amsterdam Royal Palace), in 1655. Blaeu's Hollandia Nova was also depicted in his Archipelagus Orientalis sive Asiaticus published in 1659 in the Kurfürsten Atlas (Atlas of the Great Elector). and used by Melchisédech Thévenot to produce his map, Hollandia Nova—Terre Australe (1664). As Joan Blaeu, he also published the 12 volume "Le Grand Atlas, ou Cosmographie blaviane, en laquelle est exactement descritte la terre, la mer, et le ciel". One edition is dated 1663. That was folio (540 x 340 mm), and contained 593 engraved maps and plates. In March 2015, a copy was on sale for £750,000. Around 1649 Joan Blaeu published a collection of Dutch city maps named Toonneel der Steeden (Views of Cities). In 1651 he was voted into the Amsterdam council. In 1654 Joan published the first atlas of Scotland, devised by Timothy Pont. In 1662 he reissued the Atlas Novus, also known as Atlas Maior, in 11 volumes, and one for oceans.[citation needed] A cosmology was planned as their next project, but a fire destroyed the studio completely in 1672. (Wikipedia)

Koeman Atlantes Neerlandici Vol II / 5240:2


You might also be interested in the following products

Antique Warwicum Northhamtonia Huntingdonia Cantabrigia, Suffolcia, Oxonium ... Cantium Southsexia. Warwicum...
Original antique copper engraving, uncolored when published. Uncoloured copper engraved map of the South East of...
€195.00
Antique Provincia di Kent di nuova Projezione. Provincia di Kent...
Copper engraving, in contemporary original color in outline. Published in Zatta's 'Atlante Novissimo'....
€125.00
Antique Provincia di Middlesex di nuova Projezione Provincia di...
Copper engraving, in contemporary original color in outline. Published in Zatta's "Atlante Novissimo"....
€125.00
Antique Lincolnia Comitatus. Anglis Lincoln-Shire. Lincolnia...
Original antique copper engraving, hand colored in outline and wash when published. A fine and highly decorative...
€645.00
Recently viewed products