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BLAEU, Willem (1571-1638) and Joan (1596-1673). Vyfde Stvck der Aerdrycksbeschryving, Welck Vervat Schotlandt en Yrlandt [Scotland and Ireland, volume V of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ]. Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu 1662. 2° (552 x 355mm). Dutch text. Engraved title with Scottish coat of arms and architectural marbled façade, hand-coloured and heightened in gold, 54 double-page and one single-page hand-coloured engraved maps, mounted on guards throughout, woodcut initials and tailpieces. (A few small repairs to outer margins, some maps and text leaves lightly browned, occasional unobtrusive dampstaining to lower outer corners of margins). Original publisher's vellum panelled in gilt (some staining, small hole at foot of spine, ties lacking). The second Dutch edition of Blaeu's atlas of Scotland and Ireland, comprising volume V of the Theatrum . The maps in this edition are identical to those in the first edition of 1654, with preliminary sections corresponding with Koeman/van der Krogt's issue a. The 'first printed county atlas' of Scotland (Koeman), Blaeu's atlas derives from the manuscript surveys carried out by Timothy Pont in Scotland between 1596 and 1600 and from Robert Gordon who was authorized by Charles I to amend and supplement the maps. Continuing the work of engraving the manuscripts begun by his father Willem, Joan Blaeu was granted privileges to publish the maps in 1654 by the States General, the States of Holland and West Friesland, Oliver Cromwell and Emperor Ferdinand III. Koeman & van der Krogt's Atlantes Neerlandici (1997), 2:422.