ARTIST: Joan Blaeu
PUBLISHER: Published by Guiljelmum Blaeu, Amsterdam.
MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,
DATE: 1640
EDITION SIZE: Image 14 3/8 x 18 1/2" (365 x 470 mm) plus margins.
DESCRIPTION: A handsome map from a 1640 Latin text edition of Blaeu's "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Sive Atlas Novis." Embellished with a beautifully colored title cartouche, which is surmounted by a trumpeting angel. In the lower right is a large inset plan of the city of Nuremberg above which is a key to the major buildings within.
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CONDITION: Good condition. Original hand coloring.
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