Livonia vulgo Lyefland: Blaeu c.1645

Title: Livonia vulgo Lyefland Author: Cornelis Blaeu Date: c.1645 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, crease in lower margin Inches: 15 1/4 x 12 [Image] Centimeters: 38.74 x 30.48 [Image] Product ID: 222042 Map of Estonia, Lithuania, the Baltic Sea, and parts of Finland and Sweden - plate variation/ misspelling of Lyefland. Dutch cartographer Willem Blaeu (1571-1638), and later his heirs, dominated the world cartographic landscape for much of the seventeenth century. Blaeu studied under Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, one of the major figures in the history of modern astronomy. After returning to the Low Countries from Denmark in the late 1590s, Blaeu set up shop as a cartographer and globe maker. He produced numerous atlases, and in 1633 became the official mapmaker of the Dutch East India Company, the megacorporation which, thanks to Dutch naval prowess, controlled the seventeenth-century global economy. Numerous depic