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BLAEU, Willem and Jan. Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali. [Amsterdam, 1662].
Engraved map, partially hand-colored, 379 x 520 mm. Latin text on verso. (Some light staining and offsetting.) Matted and framed.
"Cartographically the map draws on the extremly rare chart by Hessel Gerritsz, ca. 1631" (Burden). The present example is extracted from the first Latin edition of Joannes Blaeu America, quae est Geographiae Blauianae pars quinta liberunus volumen undecimum, the eleventh volume of his great Atlas Major. Burden Mapping of North America 242.
Engraved map, partially hand-colored, 379 x 520 mm. Latin text on verso. (Some light staining and offsetting.) Matted and framed.
"Cartographically the map draws on the extremly rare chart by Hessel Gerritsz, ca. 1631" (Burden). The present example is extracted from the first Latin edition of Joannes Blaeu America, quae est Geographiae Blauianae pars quinta liberunus volumen undecimum, the eleventh volume of his great Atlas Major. Burden Mapping of North America 242.