Joan (Johannes) Blaeu Furniture

Antique map titled 'Bercheria vernacule Barkshire'. Original old map of Berkshire, a historic county in South East England. Published circa 1665 by J. Blaeu. Willem Jansz. Blaeu and ...

Antique map titled 'Cestria comitatus Palatinus'. Original old map of Cheshire, Northwest England. Published circa 1665 by J. Blaeu. Willem Jansz. Blaeu and his son Joan Blaeu are th...

Blaeu's map of Asia, titled on the plate Asia noviter delineata, auctore Guilielmo Blaeuw. The map runs from the eastern Mediterranean and Arabia across Persia and India to China, th...

The duchy of Brittany, titled on the plate Britannia Ducatus, Duche de Bretagne, with the whole peninsula from the Mare Britannicum in the north to the Atlantic in the west and south...

An antique map of Normandy, titled on the plate as Normandia, engraved on copper for Joan Blaeu and published in Amsterdam in 1642 in the Dutch text edition of the atlas, Toonneel de...

The province of Maine, titled on the plate Cenomanorum Galliae regionis typus, vulgo Le Mans. The map runs from the frontiers of Normandy and the town of Domfront in the north down t...

The duchy of Anjou, titled on the plate Ducatus Andegavensis, with Angers at its centre and the Loire and the Mayenne drawn through it. The Mauges are lettered in the south west, La ...

The little country of the Loudunois, an unusual subject for a seventeenth century atlas and one of the small regional plates that make the French volume of Blaeu interesting. The map...

The duchy of Touraine, engraved for Blaeu after the survey of Isaac Francois, and titled on the plate as Ducatus Turonensis, vulgo Touraine. Tours sits at the centre with the Loire r...

Blaeu's map of the African continent, titled on the plate Africae nova descriptio. The whole continent is laid out from the Mediterranean and the Canaries to the Cape, with the Atlan...

The Dauphine, titled on the plate Delphinatus, vulgo Dauphine, avec les confins des pais et provinces voisines, and drawn by Jean de Beins, geographer and engineer to the king, who s...

Blaeu's map of the Americas, titled on the plate Americae nova tabula, one of the most celebrated maps of the New World produced in the seventeenth century. North and South America a...

The principality of Orange and the Comtat Venaissin, drawn by Jacques de Chieze of Orange and dedicated on the plate to Frederick Henry of Nassau, prince of Orange, count of Nassau, ...

The province of Provence, titled on the plate Provincia, autore Petro Joanne Bompario, with the Mediterranean along the whole southern edge and the coast running east past the county...

A map covering Languedoc and its neighbours, with part of Gascogne to the west, part of the Limousin and the Auvergne to the north, the Rouergue and the Gevaudan in the middle, the H...

The province of Quercy, titled on the plate Cadurcium, vernacule Querci, with Cahors on its loop of the Lot at the centre of the sheet. Part of the Perigord lies to the west, part of...

A map of the Bordelais, the pays de Medoc and the provosty of Born, with the Gironde opening into the sea at the top of the sheet and the Landes running south towards the Pyrenees. E...

The diocese of Sarlat in Perigord, titled on the plate Dioecesis Sarlatensis, vernacule le diocese de Sarlat, and drawn by Jean Tarde, canon of the church of Sarlat, whose name is en...

The provinces of Saintonge and Angoumois on the Atlantic coast of France, with La Rochelle at the top of the sheet, the Oceanus Aquitanicus along the western edge, Talmont on the Gir...

The duchy of Poitou, titled on the plate Pictaviae Ducatus descriptio, vulgo le pais de Poictou. The map runs from part of Brittany in the north west down the Atlantic coast past the...

This is a 17th century hand-colored map entitled "Insula Gaditana Isla de Cadiz" from Johannes (Joan) Blaeu's Atlas Maior, published in Amsterdam in 1662. The map provides an excellent plan of Cadiz Island on the southwest coast of Spain, with its harbor, fortifications, agricultural fields and several surrounding salt processing areas. Numerous sailing ships of various sizes are included in and around the harbor and bay, including five large sailing ships, as well as twenty-four smaller ships. There is a small compass rose overlying the bay. The bridge to the mainland from the island is shown on the right. There is an extremely ornate and colorful title cartouche in the lower left, with its mythological figures reminiscent of Raphael’s Galatea fresco at the Villa Farnesina in Rome. The vibrant colors are vividly preserved. The master colorist tried to emulate a painting by using various tones to create a three-dimensional effect.
 Blaeu's name is present in the plate in the lower right. Blaeu stated in his description of Cadiz: “The main wealth of the islanders consists of salt, which they harvest, and
 the tuna fisheries.” 
 This 17th century hand-colored map is framed in an ornate, partially textured bronze-colored wood frame and glazed with UV protected conservation glass. There is a vertical center fold, as issued. There is a faint crease in the lower right and faint color offset on the left from the right side of the map, resulting from having been in an atlas for hundreds of years. Small foci of paint are present in the upper portion of the left margin and in the left corner margin. The map is otherwise in very good condition. Due in large part to their powerful trade empire, the Dutch became known for cartography in the seventeenth century. This period is considered the Golden Age of Dutch cartography. Their publishing houses produced the highest quality work in Europe, particularly those maps and charts of foreign lands, and Dutch map-making set the bar for cartographic accuracy and artistry into the early-eighteenth century. Some of the most well-known cartographers worked in Amsterdam during this period. Perhaps the most famous of these was the Blaeu family. Willem Janszoon Blaeu, set up shop in Amsterdam. His son, Johannes (Joan), succeeded him upon his death in 1638, continuing in his father’s position as Hydrographer to the Dutch East India Company and selling maps to the public. The Blaeu map presses, located near Amsterdam’s Dam Square...

This mid 17th-century map was published by Guiljelmum Blaeu in Amsterdam. The engraved map is 16 1/8 x 21" (41 x 53.1 cm) with beautiful original hand color. Tabula Magellanica is a highly decorative map of the southern tip of South America, including Tierra del Fuego...

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