Natolia: Blaeu 1640

Title: Natolia, quae olim Asia Minor Author: House of Blaeu Date: 1640 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light wear along issued center fold, light toning and foxing Inches: 20 x 15 1/4 [Plate Mark] Centimeters: 50.8 x 38.74 [Plate Mark] Product ID: 233002 Map of Anatolia, present-day Turkey, including the Aegean Sea, Cypress, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea. 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 gl