Langvedoc: Blaeu 1634

Title: Langvedoc Author: Willem Blaeu Date: 1634 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Excellent Inches: 21 1/2 x 17 1/2 [Image] Centimeters: 54.61 x 44.45 [Image] Product ID: 224014 Map of the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France, now in the Province of Occitanie, by Willem Blaeu. Includes parts of the regions Gascogny, Limousin, Quercy, Auvergne, Dauphiné, and Provence. The Blaeu family firm was founded by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) in 1596.  Willem Blaeu studied under the eccentric genius Tycho Brahe before the establishing his eponymous firm. Willem was eventually joined by his sons, Cornelis (1616-1648) and Joannnes (1596-1673). The firm became the most productive cartographic establishment in the Netherlands with the elder Blaeu son initiating the great series of atlases culminating in the Atlas Maior, into which Joannes Blaeu incorporated much of the geographical knowledge bequeathed to him by his father.  Both Willem and Joannes were appoin