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This map of the French island of Corsica, ruled by the Genoese in the 17th century and included in the Italian volume of Blaeu’s atlas, is oriented...

Blaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced to bring out atlases of the British Isles in the 1630s and e...

Blaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced to bring out atlases of the British Isles in the 1630s and e...

This is the Tuscan island of Elba, a map newly added to the ‘Atlas Novus’ in 1640. Koeman records that it was first published in the French text ed...

This is a map of the Italian island of Sardinia, oriented with north to the left of the map. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, sheet size...

This map of the Mughal Empire is dedicated by the Blaeu brothers to Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen (1599–1661), a prosperous dealer in pelts and a...