Wallia Principatus Vulgo Wales: Blaeu c.1645

Title: Wallia Principatus Vulgo Wales Author: Joan Blaeu Date: c.1645 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Excellent Inches: 19 1/2 x 15 1/4 [Image] Centimeters: 49.53 x 38.74 [Image] Product ID: 224002 Map of Wales by Joan Blaeu with both the formal and common names of the counties therein. Serenissimo Domino Carolo Magnae Britanniae, etc. Principi. Ioh. Blaeu. "Charles, Serene Lord of Great Britain, etc. Prince. Joan Blaeu." 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