Thursday, March 8, 2012

World Map 17th Century

Description: Foldable map of the world, contained in "The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake...", London 1628.


Description: Decorative maps of the world from the French cartographers Nicholas Sanson and Alexis Hubert Jaillot published in 1691.





Description: Exceptional map of the world made in 1650 by the Dutch publisher Jan Jansson (Johannes Janssonius). Such maps, showing comtemporary geopraphy with ancient place names, were popular in the post-renaissance period.



Description: World map by the Dutch-German cartographer Andreas Cellarius published in 1661.



Description: A New And Accurat Map Of The World published by the Belgian engraver Peter van den Keere in 1646.



Description: World map made by the Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu in 1664.



Description: Novissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula made by the Dutch timber merchant Joannes de Ram, first published in 1683.



Description: World map from 1666 by Peter Goos, a Dutch cartographer, engraver and bookseller.

 

Description: World map Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula Autore made by the Dutch cartographer Claes Janszoon Visscher in the 17th century, published in 1652.

 

Description: World map of Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) a Flemish artist, engraver and cartographer who worked at the base of the Mercator projection. The map is part of an atlas published in 1630.



Description: Ancient world map made by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit in 1662, during the Golden Age of Dutch history (1584-1702) when Dutch trade, science and art were among the most acclaimed in the world.



Description: Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis made in 1606 by the Dutch cartographer Willem Janszoon Blaeu, who worked together with his son Joan Blaeu. First published in 1635 in their atlas Theatrum orbis terrarum.



Description: World map published in 1627 by the German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer Johannes Kepler.









Description: World map created in 1689 by the Dutch cartographer Gerrit van Schagen.



 

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