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Chili.
Very decorative map of Chili with two large and beautiful cartouches, a compass and ships. Rare without text on verso. From a French composite atlas. Read more about Dutc...
Date: Amsterdam, Paris, ca. 1639
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Hungaria Regnum.
Detailed map of Hungary centered on Budapest. Including the towns of Vienna, Zagreb as well.No text on verso. From a French composite atlas.Read more about Dutch - French...
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Britannia, sive Florentiss. regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, insularumq. adiacentium ex .
This miniature atlas is an abridged version of Camden's Brittania published by the Blaeu family in Amsterdam. It contains a total of 19 maps, with county maps taken from ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Das Wiflispurgergow.
In lower right Geneva and Lake Geneva with Lausanne. In center of map the cantons of Fribourg and Bern.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Alpinae seu Foederatae Rhaetiae subditarumque..
Detailed map Graubunden Canton in Switzerland. Including Chur, Davos, St.Moritz, etc. Engraved by Simon Hamersveldt.
Date: Amsterdam 1639
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Fossa Eugeniana que a Rheno ad Mosam..
Detailed map of part of the country between rivers Rhine and Meuse showing a canal to be dug between 1626 and 1628 between Rheinberg in Germany and Venlo. A deficiency of...
Date: Amsterdam 1639
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Comitatus Glatz.
Centered on Görlitz. The cartographer of this map was Bartholomeus Scultetus (1540-1614), active in Görlitz.. The title cartouche at bottom right shows ...
Date: Amsterdam 1639
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Zurichgow et Basiliensis provincia.
Including the towns of Basle, Lucerne, Zürich, etc.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Belgii Veteris Typus ex conatibus..
Ancient map of present Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius, after design of Abraham Ortelius. Fine title cartouche.
Date: Amsterdam 1639
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Namurcum Comitatus.
Decorative map centred on Namen. With three very fine cartouches.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Belgii Veteris Typus ex conatibus..
Ancient map of present Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius, after design of Abraham Ortelius. Fine title cartouche.
Date: Amsterdam 1639
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Queen Maria of France arriving at Amsterdam.
Panoramic view of the city from 't IJ. On the foreground extensive shipping being the arrival on August 31, 1638.The print was published in commemoration of Maria de 'Med...
Date: Amsterdam 1639
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Sclavonia, Croatia, Bosnia cum Dalmatiae Parte.
Detailed and early map with coat-of-arms focusing specifically on the embattled nations of the former Yugoslavia. Signed lower left.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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IAPONIAE Nova Descriptio.
2nd state of Hondius map. Janssonius replaced the Japanese ship with a European one. Korea shown as an island.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Rhinolandiae, Amstelandiae et ..
Centered on The Hague, Leiden, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Gouda, etc. West to the top. Prepared by Balthasar Floris van Berkenrode.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Territorium Tridentinum.
Detailed map centered on Trento. Showing the Dolomites mountains, northern tip of Lake Garda, Bolzano, etc.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Novissima Tabula Insular Dordracensis. . .
The countship of Holland was subdivided into a number of bailiwicks. The most southerly bailiwick, bordering on Brabant was named Zuid-Holland. Many floods changed the ap...
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Nova Totius Livoniae accurata Descriptio.
Decorative map of Estonia and Latvia. Including the southern tip of Finland and the south eastern tip of Sweden, including Stockholm.
Date: Amsterdam 1639
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La Hollande Septentrionale.
Large map of the northern part of the province "Holland" in the Netherlands. The map comes from the "Atlas Novus" originally published by Janssonius i...
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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America septentrionalis.
A first state of this important map showing California as an island. Lacking any imprint in the cartouche lower left. From the first French text edition. The north west o...
Date: Amsterdam 1639
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No title: Map of northern tip of Holland
The northern tip of Holland or West Friesland. West to the top. Including Amsterdam, Alkmaar, Hoorn, Enkhuizen, etc. Many ships in the Noord- and Zuiderzee.
Date: Amsterdam 1639
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Uplandia.
Covers the area of the modern Uppsala, the vicinity of Stockholm, and includes most of Aland.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Abbildung der Statt und Festung Parayba in der Landschaft Brasilia.
A splendid map of the region of Paraiba and the forts at the mouth of the Paraiba. The map illustrates the Dutch incursion into the Portuguese territory and shows the Dut...
Date: Frankfurt, 1639
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IAPONIAE Nova Descriptio.
2nd state of Hondius map. Janssonius replaced the Japanese ship with a European one.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Das Wiflispurgergou
Nice early 17th century copper engraved map of south-western Switzerland of G. Mercator by Hondius in beautiful colors. Second state, with cartouche changed to the shape ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Moscovia urbs Metropolis totius Russiae Albae.
Extremely rare and detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Moscow by Giacomo Lauro (active about 1584-1637), taken from "Heroico Splendore delle Città del Mondo&quo...
Date: Rome, dated 1628, or 1639
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Marchionatus Moraviae Auct I. Comenio.
Centered on Brno and Olomouc in south eastern part of Czech Republic.The cartographer of this map was Johan Amos Comenius (1592-1670), Czech cartographer and priest.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Regni Chinensis Descriptio.
Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), ex off, Elzeviriana, in-24o, (viii) + 365 pp + (9) nn pp (index), with decorative engraved title depicting a map of China and 2 woodcut costum...
Date: Leiden, Elzevier,1639
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Ducatus Geldria.
West to the top. Including Gelderland, but also the provinces of Utrecht, Gelderland and part of Brabant. Engraved by the master-engraver Abraham Goos.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Comitatus Zutphania.
A very detailed map of this area, including Arnhem, Nijmegen, Zutphen, Groenlo, etc.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Carte de L'Amerique. . .
The map is based on the Jodocus Hondius map of 1618. The entire west coast of North America, including nomenclature, is erased and replaced by a dotted coastline with the...
Date: Paris, 1640
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Mansfeldia Comitatus.
Centered on Mansfeld and prepared by Tilemano Stella (1527-1589) a German cartographer who made maps of Germany and the Holy Land.The scale of longitude and latitude are ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Alpinae seu Foederatae Rhaetiae subditarumque..
Detailed map Graubunden Canton in Switzerland. Including Chur, Davos, St.Moritz, etc. Engraved by Simon Hamersveldt.The scale of longitude and latitude are colored altern...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Tabula Russiae.
An attractive map of the region including all of Scandinavia through to the Black and Caspian Seas. The map is based on Hessel Gerritsz' rare and significant map of Russi...
Date: Frankfurt, 1640
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Le gouvernement de Calais & Païs reconquis.
An attractive map of the north-western part of France including the towns of Calais, Gravelines. South to the top.
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Mar di Aethiopia.
This from Johannes Janssonius' sea-atlas 'De Water-Weereld' covers the area between the Cape of Good Hope and the most southern tip of South America. Giving many place n...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Belsia, Vulgo La Beausse.
In the left-hand lower part of the image a beautiful contemporary colored cartouche with goddess Ceres [agricultural] holding a reaping-hook in her right hand and receivi...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw [and] Africae nova descriptio [and] Americae nova Tabula [and] Asia noviter delineata [and] Europa recens descripta
A matching set of the World and the Continents by Willem J. Blaeu in attractive original colors These five maps represent the apogee of seventeenth century Dutch cartogra...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Grondt-Tekening van het Eylandt ANTHONY VAAZ het Reciff ende vaste Landt aen de haven van PERNAMBUCO in Brasil..
EXTREMELY RARE MAP engraved by Willem Hondius and published by Claes Jansz. Visscher.A detailed map of the Island of Anthony Vaaz. In upper left corner an inset of Fort d...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Natolia, quae olim Asia minor.
A finely designed map from the great Blaeu family of Amsterdam.
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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TERRA SANCTA quae in Sacris Terra Promissionis?
The Holy Land, Promised Land or Palestine. Oriented to the west. Shows the entire Palestine on both sides of the Jordan, the shore line running from Tripoli as far as the...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Edynburgum.
From Merian's "Topographia," a beautifully presented panoramic view of Edinburgh in the mid 17th century. Edinburgh Castle is shown in the left portion of the p...
Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1640
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La Ville de Fovgers.
Charming view of Fougères, in Brittany.
Date: Paris, ca. 1640
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(Title page) Teatrum Orbis Terrarum.
Architectural frontage with the title and imprint printed on paste-on slips.The heraldic shield, with crown and garters.
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Nova Virginiae Tabula.
The map is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved. In 1629 the Hondius plate was purchased by Blaeu who deleted ...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Americae Pars Meridionalis.
Decorated with several ships and sea monsters, and a cartouche flanked by engravings of six Indians, netted hammocks and South American fauna.
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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America Septentrionalis.
Showing California as an island, and above, the north west of the continent left blank except for two legends explaining the discoveries to that date. The Hudson Bay is c...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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America noviter delineata.
With inset details of the North and South Poles, and several ships and sea-monsters. Hondius shows the imaginary island of Frisland, Southeast of Iceland, and gives Picar...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Novus Brasiliae Typus.
A decorative map with a title cartouche of two natives: in the interior is an inset of Baya de todos os Sanctos (Salvador), indigenous wild life and cannibal scenes. Orig...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Novissima Arragoniae..
Shows cities of Saragossa and Pamplona. Dedication to a list of worthies, deputies of the king in Aragon by Henricus Hondius.
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Americae Pars Meridionalis.
Finely engraved map of South America. Decorated with several ships and sea monsters, and a cartouche flanked by engravings of six Indians, netted hammocks and South Ameri...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Regiones Sub Polo Arctico.
One of the many cases of duplication by the firms of Blaeu and Hondius/Jansson. In this case, Blaeu has copied Jansson's map of 1637. It depicts rhumb lines radiating fro...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Moluccae Insulae Celeberrimae.
Nice map of the Moluccan Islands in the Indonesian Archipelago.Beautiful cartouches. Verso blanc.
Date: Amsterdam, c 1640
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Cyprus Insulae.
Janssonius' beautiful chart of Cyprus embellished with a very decorative title cartouche.
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Chili.
Willem Blaeu's very decorative map of Chili with two large and beautiful cartouches, a compass and ships.
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Venezuela, cum parte Australi novae Andalusiae.
A finely engraved, decorative map with Latin text on the reverse. The islands Trinidad, Margarita, Aruba and Curaçao are shown as well. With decorative title cartouche.T...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
Map of New Spain and New Galicia shows the city of Mexico situated by a large lake, as well as the location of many silver and gold mines. The map's elaborate cartouche i...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Insulae Americanae in Oceanus Septentrionali cum Terris..
General map of the West Indies extending from Virginia to the mouth of the Orinoco, and destined to be copied in various shapes by many other publishers.Title cartouche t...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Aethiopia inferior, vel exterior.
The standard map of South Africa throughout the 17th century. The lake out of which the 'Zambere' -the Zambesi- flows is probably based on reports of Lake Ngami, undiscov...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum.
An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique nort...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Guinea.
An attractive map covered with intersecting rhumb lines and decorated with monkeys, lions, elephants and native figures. With a dedication to Dr. Nicolas Tulp.
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Africae nova descriptio.
Much of the geographical information is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the Nile shown with its source in the Lakes Zaire and Zaflan. Also included are various ot...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Brandenburgum Marchionatus cum Ducatibus Pomerani..
Covering the area of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, including the towns of Rustock, Szczechi, etc.Embellished with coats of arms, sailing ships and windroses.
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Hassia Landgraviatus.
Detailed map centered on the town of Kassel. With decorative title cartouche.More about Willem Blaeu. [+]
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Legionis regnum et Asturiarum principatus.
Decorative map of the Spanish Province Asturias, Castile and Léon, including the towns of Oviedo, Leon, Santander, Valladolid, etc. With two fine title cartouches.
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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China Veteribus Sinarum Regio nunc Incolis Tame dicta.
Elegant 17th century map of China and Japan. The map is closely modelled on Janssonius' map of 1633. The detail includes the eastern part of China (bounded in the west by...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Pomeraniae ducatus Tabula.
Finely engraved map of Pomerania, geographical region today divided between northern Poland and Germany on the south coasts of the Baltic Sea. With decorative title carto...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Cyprus Insulae.
Janssonius' beautiful map of Cyprus embellished with a very decorative title cartouche.
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Rhenus Fluviorum Europae..
Shows the course of the River Rhine, showing parts of Switzerland, Austria, The Netherlands and part of Germany.The finest Dutch map publishers were the Blaeu family, and...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Guinea.
One of the most beautiful and graphic maps to be found, covering the east coast of Africa from Sierrra Leone to Gabon. The interior is decorated with many wild animals, s...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1640
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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus. Partis Primae Pars Altera.
Johan Blaeu succeeded his father Willem when the latter died in 1638. Johan led the Blaeu firm to its greatest achievement the ' Atlas Maior' in 12 parts, the greatest an...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Arragonia Regnum.
Johan Blaeu succeeded his father Willem when the latter died in 1638. Johan led the Blaeu firm to its greatest achievement the ' Atlas Maior' in 12 parts, the greatest an...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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China Veteribus Sinarum Regio.
Based on Jesuit surveys, the map represents the next major revision in the cartography of China after Ortelius' 1584 map. Korea, however, is still an island, and Japan co...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Hoc est pvctvm qvod inter...
World map in double hemisphere, showing California as an island. Published by Michael van Lochom (1601-47). Engraver, publisher and Royal Printer active in Rue St.Jacques...
Date: Paris 1640
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Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
Nice map extending from the Isla Margarita in the northwest to the coast of northern Brazil near Sao Luis east of the Amazon delta. The map locates at its center a large ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Terra Firma et Novum regnum Granatense et Propayan.
Fine copy, with wide margins of this handsome map of the Isthmus of Panama and northwestern South America including most of present day Columbia and part of Venezuela. Te...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Fezzae et Marocchi regna Africae celeberrima.
An attractive map of northwest Africa and Morocco. The Pillars of Hercules & Straits of Gibraltar, and Spain are shown to the right of the map (north is to the right ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula
Magnificent world map on Mercator's projection. Petrus Plancius world map of 1592 was the main source of geographical information for the map. A supreme example of the ma...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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