Poland – Blaeu, Willem J. (1571 – 1638).

Ducatus Silesiae Glogani Vera Delineatio.

Original hand-coloured engraving. Amsterdam Blaeu, [1644]. Plate Size: 50.5 cm x 41.3 cm. Sheet Size: 65 cm x 56.1 cm / With Mount: 67 cm x 58.8 cm. Original map. In very good, clean condition. Latin text on reverse.

Beautiful and richly detailed map of the Duchy of Glogów/ Glogau in Polish Silesia. Relief shown pictorially. The Oder River dominates the heavily-forested landscape.
A large decorative title cartouche bear the coat of arms featuring Bohemian lion and Silesian eagle. Explanatory box with map keys also included. In the opposite corner another decorated cartouche contains bar scale.

Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) was a Dutch cartographer, atlas maker and publisher. Along with his son Johannes Blaeu, Willem is considered one of the notable figures of the Netherlandish/Dutch school of cartography in its golden age (the 16th and 17th centuries). Blaeu set up his mapmaking and publishing business in Amsterdam, where he sold instruments and globes, published maps, and edited the works of intellectuals like Descartes and Hugo Grotius. In 1633 he was appointed map-maker of the Dutch East India Company. In 1635, he released his atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive, Atlas novus.
Willem died in 1638. He had two sons, Cornelis (1610-1648) and Johannes (1596-1673). Joan trained as a lawyer, but joined his father’s business rather than practice. After his father’s death, the brothers took over their father’s shop and Joan took on his work as hydrographer to the Dutch East India Company. Later in life, Joan would modify and greatly expand his father’s Atlas novus, eventually releasing his masterpiece, the Atlas maior, between 1662 and 1672. (Wikipedia)

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• Inventory Number: 200051AG

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