BLAEU, Willem (1571-1638) and Jan (1596-1673). Asia noviter delineata. [Amsterdam, ca. 1640].
BLAEU, Willem (1571-1638) and Jan (1596-1673). Asia noviter delineata. [Amsterdam, ca. 1640]. Engraved map, partially hand-colored, 412 x 555, with decorative cartouches, the seas embellished with ships, vignette borders consisting of 9 city views at top and 10 costume vignettes at sides. The maps hand-colored in outline, vignettes fully colored by a contemporary hand. (Slightly repair to split at fold). Matted and framed. Highly decorative map of Asia from Blaeu's Theatrum orbis terrarum . These single-sheet versions of Blaeu's 1608 continental wall maps were first published separately in 1617. They reappeared in atlas form in the 1631 edition of Blaeu's Atlantis Appendix, and in the 1635 and later editions of the Theatrum.
BLAEU, Willem (1571-1638) and Jan (1596-1673). Asia noviter delineata. [Amsterdam, ca. 1640].
BLAEU, Willem (1571-1638) and Jan (1596-1673). Asia noviter delineata. [Amsterdam, ca. 1640]. Engraved map, partially hand-colored, 412 x 555, with decorative cartouches, the seas embellished with ships, vignette borders consisting of 9 city views at top and 10 costume vignettes at sides. The maps hand-colored in outline, vignettes fully colored by a contemporary hand. (Slightly repair to split at fold). Matted and framed. Highly decorative map of Asia from Blaeu's Theatrum orbis terrarum . These single-sheet versions of Blaeu's 1608 continental wall maps were first published separately in 1617. They reappeared in atlas form in the 1631 edition of Blaeu's Atlantis Appendix, and in the 1635 and later editions of the Theatrum.
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