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Title of collection

Atlases from the Maritime Museum a

Description

In the seventeenth century cartography in the Netherlands flourished. Dutch cartographers dominated almost the entire European market. This collection contains two cartographic highlights to be viewed in full, a land atlas and a maritime atlas. The Atlas Van Loon is a beautifully bound, extended version of Joan Blaeu's ‘Groote Atlas’ ('Large Atlas') from 1663-1665. Blaeu's Atlas comprised the entire known world at the time. In addition, the Atlas Van Loon contains Blaeu's town books and two maritime atlases by other cartographers. Johannes van Keulen's Zee-Fakkel ('Sea Torch') – published in many editions between 1681 and the end of the eighteenth century – contained in six volumes all the maps a sailor could ever need. Almost all the maps are coloured in by hand. a

This record is also available in fr, en, cs, ee, pl, it, fi, sv, de, el, nl, hu, sk, es, lv, cy, bg

Digital format

JPEGa

Legal status

copyrights restricted a

Spatial coverage

North America; Central America; Central America; Caribean; South America; South America; North Africa; North Africa; Southern Africa; East Africa; West Africa; South Asia; Central Asia; East Asia; South East Asia; Middle East; Oceania; Europea

Collection size

1750 afbeeldingen a

Accrual

gesloten a

Last update: 2007-09-25

Language of the record: nl

Access to collection

Website

Het Geheugen van Nederland website

http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/

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