Blaeu’s Map of Elba
SKU: 9045
£250.00
Title:
Blaeu’s Map of Elba
Date of publication:
1640
Printed Measurement:
49.5 x 30 cm sheet size
Publisher(s):
Colour:
modern
Mapmaker(s):
Elba Isola, olim Ilva.
Copper engraving, sheet size 49.5 x 30 cm, map 20 x 25.5 cm, modern hand colour, set within Latin text with further text on verso.
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 edition of the same year. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 36A.