Joan Blaeu by Joan Blaeu

Name: Joan Blaeu
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Superlatives flounder in the face of Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior, one of the most extravagant feats in the history of mapmaking. This stunning edition is based on the Austrian National Library’s complete colored and gold-heightened copy and reprints its 594 maps covering all then-known continents to the highest reproduction standard, rendering full justice to this luxurious Baroque wonder.

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Joan Blaeu by Joan Blaeu

Superlatives flounder in the face of Joan Blaeus Atlas Maior, one of the most extravagant feats in the history of mapmaking. This stunning edition is based on the Austrian National Librarys complete colored and gold-heightened copy and reprints its 594 maps covering all then-known continents to the highest reproduction standard, rendering full justice to this luxurious Baroque wonder.

“There can be few books out there more jaw-droppingly gorgeous than this extraordinary Atlas” * TNT Magazine *

Joan Blaeu (1596 Alkmaar–1673 Amsterdam) was a leading Dutch cartographer and member of the Amsterdam council. Son of Willem Blaeu, also a famed cartographer, Joan and his brother Cornelius took over his father’s workshop in 1638. He became the official cartographer of the Dutch East India Company and would gain further fame with a collection of Dutch city maps entitled Tooneel der Steeden, the first atlas of Scotland, and the masterwork Atlas Maior. Peter van der Krogt is a leading expert on Dutch atlases. Since 1990, he has been working on Koeman’s Atlantes Neerlandici, the cartobibliography of atlases published in the Netherlands. Van der Krogt is Jansonius curator at the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam, and until 2017, he was a researcher in the history of cartography at the University of Utrecht.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9783836538039
ISBN 10	3836538032
Title	Joan Blaeu
Author	Joan Blaeu
Series	Fantastic Price Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Taschen GmbH
Year published	2016-07-04
Number of pages	512
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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