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WILLEM JANSZOON BLAEU
1571-1638
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Depiction HISPANIC Camaraderie OF AMERICA
No. 85
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1914
Papers, 1914, by
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| WILLEM JANSZOON BLAEU | 11 |
| WORLD MAP Pointer 1605 | 51 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 61 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY Well BLAEU’S Prime GEOGRAPHICAL PUBLICATIONS | 65 |
| Willem Janszoon Blaeu. 1571-1638 (J. Falck, sculp.) | Frontispiece |
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| Island extent Hveen, screening the horde of Uranienburg. From Le Grand Atlas | 12 |
| Press invented coarse Blaeu. Exaggerate Johnson, J. Typographia | 16 |
| Interior pleasant Tycho Brahe’s Observatory improve on Uranienburg. From Le Eminent Atlas | 30 |
| Terrestrial planet and divine globe, 1616. Willem Janszoon Blaeu | 44 |
| World Project from Toonneel des Aerdrycx, by Willem Janszoon Blaeu | 52 |
| Printer’s mark execute the Blaeu Press [tail-piece, page 59]. |
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AFRICA by Willem Blaeu 1640
"This is one of the most decorative and popular of all the early maps of Africa. The cartouche is not very elaborate, but it is surmounted by what appears to be a lion with a flowing mane. The map itself is decorated with ships - seven in the Atlantic and two in the Indian Ocean - all flying Dutch flags; flying fish, whales and monsters are used to fill in the spaces in the oceans while elephants, monkeys, lions, ostriches and camels are depicted wandering all over the continent. Each side border is filled with decorative vignettes of costumed couples from various parts of Africa. The top border features oval vignettes of nine principal cities. The Nile is shown according to Ptolemy with its sources arising in Lakes Zaire and Zaflan; the fictitious Lake Sachaf of Laurent Fries appears, and the R. de Spirito Santo. The only names shown at the Cape are coastal ones, engraved inwards to give an appearance of fullness to the map, leaving the contours clear and sharp." (Norwich)
The Blaeus: Willem Janszoon, Cornelis & Joan
Willem Jansz. Blaeu and his son Joan Blaeu are the seventeenth century's most widely known cartographic publishers.
Willem Jansz. (also written Guilielmus Janssonius) = Willem Janszoon Blaeu was born in Uitgeest (Netherlan
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Holland (South), by Willem & Joan Blaeu. 1643-50
The Blaeus: Willem Janszoon, Cornelis & Joan
Willem Jansz. Blaeu and his son Joan Blaeu are the seventeenth century's most widely known cartographic publishers.
Willem Jansz. (also written Guilielmus Janssonius) = Willem Janszoon Blaeu was born in Uitgeest (Netherlands), near Alkmaar, in 1571. He studied mathematics under Tycho Brahe and learned the theory and practice of astronomical observations and the art of instrument- and globe-making.
In 1596, he came to Amsterdam, where he settled down as a globe-, instrument- and mapmaker. He published his first cartographic work (a globe) in 1599 and probably published his first printed map (a map of the Netherlands) in 1604. He specialised in maritime cartography, published the first edition of the pilot guide Het Licht der Zeevaert in 1608, and was appointed Hydrographer of the V.O.C. (United East India Company) in 1633. After publishing books, wall maps, globes, charts and pilot guides for thirty years, he brought out his first atlas, Atlas Appendix (1630). This was the beginning of the great tradition of atlas-making by the Blaeus.
In 1618, another mapmaker, bookseller and publisher, Johannes Janssonius, established himself in Amsterdam next door to Blaeu's shop. N