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(in English) John Goss & Peter Clark, Blaeu – Der große Atlas: die Welt im 17. Jahrhundert. Wien 1990, ISBN 3-701-40304-X (in German) J. Keuning, Willem Jansz. Blaeu. A biography and history of his work as a cartographer and publisher. Rev. and ed. by M. Donkersloot-De Vrij. Amsterdam 1973 (in English) C. Koeman, Joan Blaeu and his 'Grand ...
Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɪləm ˈjɑnsoːm ˈblʌu]; [a] 1571 – 21 October 1638), also abbreviated to Willem Jansz. Blaeu , was a Dutch cartographer , atlas maker, and publisher .
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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.
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
Van der Hem was born in Amsterdam as the son of the lawyer Ysbrand van der Hem and his wife Geertrui Spiegel, the daughter of the poet Hendrik Laurenszoon Spiegel.His uncles on his father's side were famous in their own right; his uncle Herman was a gifted draughtsman, uncle Hendrik became a lawyer who acquired a large library, and uncle Arend was knighted by Ferdinand II in 1620, and called ...
In 1635, they published the Atlas Novus (full title: Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus) in two volumes. Joan and his brother Cornelius took over the studio after their father died in 1638. Blaeu became the official cartographer of the Dutch East India Company like his father before him. Blaeu died in Amsterdam on 21 December 1673. [1]
Blaeu is the name of Willem Blaeu (1571–1638), Dutch cartographer and father of Joan Blaeu; Joan Blaeu (1596–1673), Dutch cartographer and son of Willem Blaeu; Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, by Joan Blaeu, published in 1654; Atlas Blaeu or Atlas Maior, by Joan Blaeu, published in 1635; Stedenboek Blaeu or Toonneel der Steeden, by Joan Blaeu ...