1644 BLAEU, W. / J. - Decorative map corresponding to modern northern Poland (south to Toruń on the Vistula).
Prussia accurate descriptia a Gasparo Henneberg Erlichensi. |
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Description
Depicts the historical region of Royal and Ducal Prussia — corresponding to modern northern Poland (south to Toruń on the Vistula), the Kaliningrad exclave, and western Lithuania, from just west of Gdańsk (Danzig) east to Augustów, with Samogitia and Palanga marking the northeastern extent. Decorative title cartouche, scale cartouche, and (on many states) a coastal or figural vignette.
The geographic content derives from Caspar Henneberger's pioneering 1576 nine-sheet wall map of Prussia — the first detailed map of the region, produced under the patronage of Duke Albert of Prussia with mathematician Nicolaus Neodomus. Henneberger's work was subsequently reduced and adapted by successive publishers: first by Ortelius (Prussiae Vera Descriptio, from 1595 in the Theatrum), then re-engraved for the Blaeu and Janssonius atlas houses in the 1630s.
Known dated states for comparison:
1629/1635 — earliest Blaeu appearance (Willem Blaeu, Appendix), plate originally engraved by Jodocus Hondius, later acquired by Blaeu
1633/1641 — Janssonius state, French verso text, from Nouveau Théâtre du Monde
1644–45 — W. & J. Blaeu, imprint "Guiljelmus Janß. Caesius," from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Latin verso
1647–50 — W. & J. Blaeu via Jan Jansson intermediate plate, Dutch verso, from Toonneel des Aerdrycx
1664 — J. Blaeu, Dutch text, from Grooten Atlas
1667 — Joan Blaeu, Atlas Maior, vol. 2, map 22 (the grandest and latest of the Blaeu editions, in the 11-volume Latin Atlas Maior)
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