Atlas Maior of 1665

Blaeu, Joan

ISBN 10: 3836524112 ISBN 13: 9783836524117

Publisher: Taschen America Llc, 2010

Synopsis

Taschen, Köln, 2010. 512 S. mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, Pappband mit Schutzumschlag, im Schuber, folio - sehr gutes Exemplar / Reprint der Ausgabe 1665 / dreisprachig: englisch, deutsch und französisch / With a selection of original texts by Joan Blaeu / Introduction and texts by Peter van der Krogt / Translation: Jeniffer Schaudies u.a. -

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Review:

"There can be few books out there more jaw-droppingly gorgeous than this extraordinary Atlas. The reprint more than does justice to Blaeu's masterpiece." TNT Magazine, London "There can be few books out there more jaw-droppingly gorgeous than this extraordinary Atlas. The reprint more than does justice to Blaeu's masterpiece." TNT Magazine, London" --TNT Magazine, London

About the Author:

Joan Blaeu (1596 Alkmaar-1673 Amsterdam) was the son of Willem Blaeu and a leading Dutch cartographer. In 1620 he became a doctor of law and subsequently joined his father's workshop. In 1635 they published the two-volume Novus Atlas (Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus). Joan and his brother Cornelius took over the workshop after their father had died in 1638. Joan became the official cartographer of the Dutch East India Company. Around 1649 he published a collection of Dutch city maps entitled Tooneel der Steeden (Theater of Cities). In 1651 he was voted into the Amsterdam council. In 1654 he published the first atlas of Scotland. In 1662 he reissued the atlas in 11 volumes, known as the Atlas Maior. A cosmology was planned as his next project, but a fire destroyed the workshop in 1672. Joan Blaeu died in the following year. Since 1990, Peter van der Krogt, the leading expert in the field of Dutch atlases, has been working on Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, the cartobibliography of atlases published in the Netherlands. His second project is the compilation, in cooperation with the Nijmegen University, of an illustrated and annotated catalogue of the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem, the most important multivolume atlas preserved in the Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna.

About this edition

• Publisher: Taschen America Llc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3836524112
• ISBN 13: 9783836524117
• Binding: Product Bundle
• Number of pages: 512