The Atlas Maior has regional, country, and province maps, with detailed town names, plants, and buildings. Some maps have latitude and longitude, with detailed ships flying country flags on …

The Atlas Mayor (the Spanish edition of the Atlas Maior) is the rarest edition of what De la Fontaine Verwey called "the greatest and finest atlas ever published". Van der Krogt locates …

The Atlas Maior is the final version of Joan Blaeu 's atlas, published in Amsterdam between 1662 and 1672, in Latin (11 volumes), French (12 volumes), Dutch (9 volumes), German (10 …

These maps record the evolution of cities illustrating the development and nature of economic activities, educational and religious facilities, parks, street patterns and widths, and …

The Blaeu Atlas Maior brought to fruition the largest map publishing project the world had seen, and it reflected a number of important background factors: the emergence of the atlas idea …

OpenHistoricalMap is an interactive map of the world throughout history, created by people like you and dedicated to the public domain.

Blaeu’s Novus Atlas Sinensis represents the first European Atlas of China. It remained the standard geographical work on China until the publication of D’Anville’s Atlas de la Chine of 1773.

Willem Janszoon Blaeu was born 1571 in Alkmaar. He was trained from 1594 to 1596 by the famous danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. 1599 he went to Amsterdam and founded a business …

A unique suite of historic maps of the World showing the development of geographic and cartographic knowledge through 5 centuries. The maps were produced in different formats and …

This beautiful, extremely rare, separately-issued, double hemisphere carte á figures world map captures the most desirable elements of 17th century Dutch decorative cartography in one …