Atlas Major sive Cosmographia Blaviana -Tome one.

Part one of first edition of the famous Atlas major, with all instruments of Thyco Brahe

Type of object:

Maps and globes, Atlases

Time period:

Gouden eeuw Nederland

Place:

Amsterdam

Date:

1662

Maker / Author:

Joan Blaeu

Publisher / Printer:

Joan Blaeu

Dimensions:

large Folio 56,2 x 37cm

Material:

Complete set with coloured and illuminated engraved title and 61 single or double-page maps, all finely coloured . Original gilded leather cover

Graduation:

Inscription:

Provenance:

Guillelmus Depinteuille Presbyter Catalaunensice 1846, Book plate of Jean Louis Gourgas, Victor von Klemperer, Dresden and Berlin, his book plate, 1920 - 39. Inventory no. 2231

References:

Koeman 2:602; van der Krogt, 2005

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Description

The Blaeu Atlas Maior or Cosmographia Blaviana is one of the largest and most splendid of the multi-volume Dutch world atlases. Published in 1662-5, its 594 maps and 3,368 pages of texts collectively presented the state of geographic knowledge of the world in the mid 17th century. First Latin edition. Complete set with coloured and illuminated engraved title and 61 single or double-page maps, all finely coloured by hand according to the publisher’s instruction. World, Europe, Arctic, Norway, Denmark and Hven, Schleswig-Holstein, with all the instruments of Thyco Brahe.