Antique Map-VIER AMBACHTEN-BELGIUM-HULST-Blaeu-1664

Copperplate engraving on verge type hand laid paper with watermark. Recent hand coloring. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 58 x 46 cm. The image size is ca. 52.5 x 41 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 22.8 x 18.1 inch. The image size is ca. 20.7 x 16.1 inch.

Map: ‘Kaerte van de Vier Ambachten’. (Map of the Vier Ambachten.) This map shows the Vier ambachten in Belgium and Zeeuws-Vlaanderen in the Netherlands. The Vier Ambachten are: Boekhouterambacht, Assenederambacht, Axelerambacht en Hulsterambacht. This map was published by Joannes Blaeu in 1664. Artists and Engravers: Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) is a famous Dutch Cartographer. His most notable early work was a map of Holland (1604), a fine World Map (1605-06) and Het Licht der Zeevaerdt (The Light of Navigation), a marine atlas, which went through many editions in different languages and under a variety of titles. At the same time Blaeu was planning a major atlas intended to include the most up-to-date maps of the whole of the known world but progress on so vast a project was slow and not until he bought between 30 and 40 plates of the Mercator Atlas from Jodocus Hondius II to add to his own collection was he able to publish, in 1630, a 60-map volume with the title Atlantis Appendix. It was another five years before the first two volumes of his planned world atlas, Atlas Novus or the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum were issued. About this time he was appointed Hydrographer to the East India Company. When he died the business passed into the hands of his sons, Joan and Cornelis, who continued and expanded their father’s ambitious plans.

Condition: Fine. General age related toning and occasional light staining from handling as visible on scans.

Keywords: ANTIQUE MAP-VIER AMBACHTEN-BELGIUM-HULST-BLAEU

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