ARTIST: Joan Blaeu
PUBLISHER: Published by Guiljelmum Blaeu, Amsterdam.
MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,
DATE: c.1640.
EDITION SIZE: Image 14 15/16 x 19 1/2" (380 x 496 mm) plus margins.
DESCRIPTION: A beautiful map from a 1640 Latin text edition of Blaeu's "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Sive Atlas Novis." The city of Lyons in shown in the lower right corner. Decorative putti cartouches flank both the title and scale cartouches.
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CONDITION: Good condition, save for occasional foxing. Original hand coloring.
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