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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]
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 volumes) and Spanish (10 volumes), containing 594 maps and around 3,000 pages of text. [1]
A 17th-century world map by Joan Blaeu, like his “Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula,” can command prices that soar into the thousands. More recently, a World Ortelius map sold for £4,000 ...
Blaeu's world map, first published in the 1664 volume of the Atlas van Loon, later reprinted. The Atlas van Loon was commissioned by Frederik Willem van Loon of Amsterdam. It consists of a large number of maps published between 1649 and 1676: [1] Volumes I to IX: The Dutch edition of Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior (Grooten Atlas) of 1663-1665
Blaeu's 1630 map of Europe Blaeu's 1614 map of the Americas. Blaeu's maps were featured in the works of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer of Delft (1632–1675), who holds a position of great honor among map historians. Several of his paintings illustrate maps hanging on walls or globes standing on tables or cabinets.
Janssonius' maps are similar to those of Blaeu, and he is often accused of copying from his rival, but many of his maps predate those of Blaeu and/or covered different regions. By 1660, at which point the atlas bore the appropriate name "Atlas Major", there were 11 volumes, containing the work of about a hundred credited authors and engravers.
Willem Blaeu and Johannes Blaeu's 1606–1626 world map Herman Moll's A new map of the whole world with the trade winds (1736) Frederik de Wit's 1670 world map. Pieter van der Aa (Netherlands, 1659–1733) João Teixeira Albernaz I (Portugal, died c. 1664), prolific cartographer, son of Luís Teixeira
Laurens van der Hem (1621–1678), was a Dutch lawyer and a collector of maps and landscape prints. He is known today for commissioning his meticulously thorough personal version of the Atlas Maior, itself a major work of cartography and art published by his contemporary and friend Joan Blaeu.