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Mémorial Du Grand-duché De Luxembourg. French Edition

Luxembourg - Blaeu, William and Johannes (1571-1638)Biblio.com

Lutzenburg Ducatus.

1630200037AG1630. Amsterdam Blaeu c.1630. Original hand-coloured copper engraving. Plate Size: 49.7 cm x 37.7 cm. Sheet Size: 57.3 cm x 50.2 cm. Nice bright original map in very good condition. Traces of browning and minor tearing to outer margins. French text on reverse. Van der Krogt 2 3380:2.2; Van der Vekene 2.12.B; Koeman 3380:22. Large and interesting map of the historical Duchy of Luxembourg. Richly detailed with relief shown pictorially. The region is dominated by the Meuse Moselle and the River Rhine to the north. The value of the highly-contested ground is evident given the fortified towns marked on the map: Namen Metz and Sedan: control of this region would change hands many times over the centuries as frontiers moved back and forth across maps. The map is crowded with the names of cities such as Trier Luxemburg Saarbrucken and Coblentz - evidence of the urban nature of the heavily populated and rich region. The vast forests such as the Ardennes are also marked on the map. Areas making up modern-day Rhineland-Palatinate Germany Saarland Germany and Lorraine France can be seen on the map also. In the lower left corner is the title cartouche with a coat-of-arms. In the lower right corner is the mileage bar scale. Willem Janszoon Blaeu 1571-1638 was a Dutch cartographer atlas maker and publisher. Along with his son Johannes Blaeu Willem is considered one of the notable figures of the Netherlandish/Dutch school of cartography in its golden age the 16th and 17th centuries. Blaeu set up his mapmaking and publishing business in Amsterdam where he sold instruments and globes published maps and edited the works of intellectuals like Descartes and Hugo Grotius. In 1633 he was appointed map-maker of the Dutch East India Company. In 1635 he released his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas novus. Willem died in 1638. He had two sons Cornelis 1610-1648 and Johannes 1596-1673. Joan trained as a lawyer but joined his father's business rather than practice. After his father's death the brothers took over their father's shop and Joan took on his work as hydrographer to the Dutch East India Company. Later in life Joan would modify and greatly expand his father's Atlas novus eventually releasing his masterpiece the Atlas maior between 1662 and 1672. Wikipedia unknown

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