Tertia Pars Brabantiæ: Blaeu 1640

Title: Tertia Pars Brabantiæ Author: House of Blaeu Date: 1640 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, issued center fold, minor tear in lower margin with adhesive residue from old repair Inches: 24 x 19 1/2 [Paper] Centimeters: 60.96 x 49.53 [Paper] Product ID: 100508 Map of Brabant and surrounding territories showing the cities of Antwerp, Leuven, and Breda, among others. Title cartouche features the coats of arms of these cities. Map oriented with north corresponding to its right-hand border. 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 of