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[Eastern Hemisphere]
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
[Eastern Hemisphere]
1648
10151.004
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Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
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[Eastern Hemisphere]
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10151.004
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Description in a cartouche in the bottom right of the globe. 1 map : copperplate engraving on 12 sheets, hand colour. Dates estimated. This circular map filled the right half of Blaeu's enormous world map, which was published under the title 'Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula'. Although undated, the dedication to Gaspar de Bracamonte Guzmán, a Spanish representative at the Treaty of Westphalia, probably places the publication sometime around the conclusion of the treaty in 1648. As new information continued to arrive the map was revised multiple times, producing at least four different states. This is an impression of the first, pulled before Blaeu made major revisions to the depiction of China. As published, Blaeu's two maps were framed in a border filled with smaller terrestrial and astrological maps. Judging from the extant copies, the two hemispheres were often extracted from the map and, in this case, presented as separate sheets. In doing so, however, the compilers of the Klencke Atlas reversed the order in which the hemispheres are presented on Blaeu's sheet, presumably to give precedence to Europe.
[Western Hemisphere]
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673,...
[Western Hemisphere]
1648
10151.005
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Author
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, cartographer, publisher.
Full Title
[Western Hemisphere]
List No
10151.005
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 12 sheets, hand colour. Description in a cartouche in the bottom left of the globe. This circular map filled the left half of Blaeu's enormous terrestrial wall map, which was published under the title 'Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula'. Although undated, the dedication to Gaspar de Bracamonte Guzmán, a Spanish representative at the Treaty of Westphalia, probably places the publication sometime around the conclusion of that treaty in 1648. As new geographical information continued to arrive in the Netherlands the map was revised multiple times, resulting in at least four different states. This is an impression of the first, pulled before Blaeu made major revisions to the other half of the plate. As published, Blaeu's two maps were framed in a border filled with smaller terrestrial and astrological maps. The two hemispheres were often extracted and presented as separate sheets, however, and in this case as individual pages of an atlas. In doing so, however, the compilers of the Klencke Atlas reversed the order in which the hemispheres are presented on Blaeu's sheet, presumably to give precedence to Europe.
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