Decorated with a figural title cartouche, elephants, lions, camels on the land areas, and galleons and sea monsters on the sea. Japan has a predominantly east to west direction and Australia has yet to appear. Since the Blaeu family were official cartographers to the United East India Company from 1633, their Asia maps have been continuously improved. The map contains extensive details showing what was known of Asia in the early 17th century. With vignette scenes of regional types to the left and right and nine city views along the top border.Īsia 'Asia noviter delineata': This map is a reduced version of Blaeu's 1608 Asia wall map and first published separately in 1617. Decorated with a title cartouche, natives on the South America land area, and galleons and sea monsters on the sea. From the expedition journals of De Soto (1539-43) they had inferred an extensive range of east west trending mountains north of the Gulf of Mexico, precluding any great river system. European geographers still had no knowledge of the extent of the Mississippi. He has added French names in Florida and along the St Lawrence. Willem Blaeu has added the English names on the East Coast given by the Roanoke colonists in Virginia and by Frobisher, Davis and Hudson to the far north. With vignette scenes of regional types to the left and right and cities along the top border.Īmerica 'Americae nova Tabula': The delineation of the coast are basically Spanish in origin and follow the maps of Ortelius and Wytfliet. Decorated with a title cartouche, elephants, lions, ostriches on the land areas, and galleons and sea monsters on the sea. Only coastal towns are named on the Cape, with the printing covering much of the unknown territory. Also included are various other mythical lakes and rivers including the famous Lake Sachaf of Laurent Fries. The map was replaced by a two hemispheres world map prepared by Willem's son Joan from 1662 onwards.Īfrica 'Africae nova descriptio': Much of the geographical information of this carte-à-figures map is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the Nile shown with its source in the Lakes Zaire and Zaflan. It appeared in the Blaeu Atlas from 1630 until 1658. The map has decorative cartouches for the title, dedication and explanation, two spheres for the north and south poles, a compass roses and numerous ships and sea monsters. Shirley, The Mapping of the World, Entry 255). Along the bottom are seven vignettes showing the seven ancient wonders of the world: the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus over the harbour at Rhodos, the Pyramids, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus at Caria, the Temple of Diane, the Statue of Jupiter, and the conical lighthouse of Alexandria.' (R. Down the sides are, on the left, four panels illustrating the elements (Fire, Water, Air and Earth), and on the right, the four seasons. Along the top are allegorical of the sun and the moon and the known five planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The most striking characteristic are the superb border decorations. The engraver Josua van den Ende signed in the lower right corner. 'The map has been expertly reduced from the Blaeu's large world map of 1605. celebrated as one of the supreme examples of the map maker's art'. World 'Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis': Shirley describes this world map as a 'classic single-sheet world map on Mercator's projection. From the most expensive book published in the 17th century, an eleven-volume atlas containing 593 hand-coloured maps. With their decorative panels of costumed figures, city views and mythological personifications, they helped establish an iconography in the popular imagination which endures to this day. These five maps represent the apogee of seventeenth century Dutch cartography. A matching set of the World and the Continents by Willem J.
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