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Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 30/11/2015 Description: Following the death of Willem Blaeu in 1638, his son Joan Blaeu expanded and refined the familys atlas project, culminating in the monumental Atlas Maior. The origins of this enterprise, however, extend back several decades. In 1599, after briefly studying…

Acquired From: Antique Print & Map Room Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 3/8/2016 Dealers ID No.: FP 1648 BLAE 001 Description: Following the death of Willem Blaeu in 1638, his son Joan Blaeu expanded and refined the familys atlas project, culminating in the monumental Atlas Maior. The origins of this enterprise,…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 30/11/2015 Description: The Civitates orbis terrarum (Cities of the World) is a monumental six-volume series of city views and plans, conceived as a cartographic and cultural companion to Abraham Orteliuss Theatrum orbis terrarum (for the 1584 edition View Record (#252)). The project…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 30/11/2015 Description: Published in Amsterdam by Pierre Mortier, this frontispiece forms part of his broader ambition to establish a French-language cartographic publishing enterprise capable of rivaling the great atlas productions of Paris and Amsterdam. Having trained in Paris in the early 1680s,…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 30/11/2015 Description: Around 1584, Pieter van den Keere fled religious persecution in Ghent (now part of Belgium) and settled in London. His sister, Colette van den Keere ( #113), also moved to London, where she married Jodocus Hondius ( #18, #80, #82,…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 30/11/2015 Description: Published in Amsterdam by Pierre Mortier, this frontispiece forms part of his broader ambition to establish a French-language cartographic publishing enterprise capable of rivaling the great atlas productions of Paris and Amsterdam. Having trained in Paris in the early 1680s, Mortier…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 5/10/2017 Description: Following the death of Willem Blaeu in 1638, his son Joan Blaeu expanded and refined the familys atlas project, culminating in the monumental Atlas Maior. The origins of this enterprise, however, extend back several decades. In 1599, after briefly studying…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Date Acquired: 6/5/2018 Description: Engraved title page from the 1708 edition of Andreas Cellariuss Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica, one of the most visually ambitious celestial atlases of the seventeenth century. Originally published by Johannes Janssonius in 1660, this later issue by Gerard Valk and Pieter Schenk…