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Atlas Blaeu - Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken. Front page of the Atlas novus, forerunner of the Atlas maior, 1645 Joan & Willem Blaeu Atlas in 11 volumes with white leather binding with gold leaf and special chest to hold it in, next to a portrait of Willem Blaeu, copy in the University of Amsterdam Special Collections
The collection is based on Joan Blaeu's maps of towns of the Netherlands, Tooneel der Steden van de Vereenighde Nederlanden, and the part of Blaeu's Atlas Major covering the Netherlands. Beudeker also collected many maps, portraits, drawings, views, and satirical prints dated between 1600 and 1756.
1641 Nieuwen Atlas (New Atlas) by Janssonius. Johannes Janssonius (1588, in Arnhem – buried July 11, 1664, in Amsterdam ) (born Jan Janszoon , in English also Jan Jansson ) was a Dutch cartographer and publisher who lived and worked in Amsterdam in the 17th century.
Fiercely competitive with his contemporary Johannes Janssonius as to which of them could make an atlas with a higher quantity of maps, Blaeu in 1662 published the Atlas Maior, it had 11 volumes and included 600 maps. This atlas became a status symbol for those who owned it and was the most expensive book of the 17th century. [6]
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Christoffel Beudeker (1675 or 1685 – 1756) [1] [2] was an Amsterdam merchant and landowner who created an important collection of maps and views of the Dutch Republic and the southern Netherlands which is now in the British Library as the Beudeker Collection.
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Petrus Bertius (also Peter Bertius; (in Dutch) Pieter de Bert) (14 November 1565 – 13 October 1629) was a Flemish philosopher, theologian, historian, geographer and cartographer. Bertius published much in mathematics, and historical and theological works, but he is now best known as cartographer with his edition of the Geographia of Ptolemy ...