Leicestrensis comitatus by Johannes Blaeu

Code: 53755

Date: 1647 - 1649

Copper engraving with original hand colouring heightened subtly with gold (Top two crowns and Leicester). Overall size : 64.8cms x 55.8cms ; Image size : 497mm x 383mm. Latin text pp 244/243. Large paper example.  Fine condition.

 Publication of Blaeu's New World Atlas, or "Atlas Novus" was originally begun by Johannes's father Willem Blaeu with the publication in 1635 of two volumes (delineating The World, Europe, Arctic, Scandinavia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Germany and the Low Countries; and France, Spain, Asia, Africa and America), and published in four languages (German, Dutch, Latin and French). After succeeding his father, Johannes Blaeu expanded the "Atlas Novus" to six volumes by 1655, and this formed the first half the "Atlas Maior," extending to 11 or 12 volumes by 1662.  Their maps represent the pinnacle of Dutch mapmaking in the C16th.