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Description

Rare map of the Lake Geneva region of Switzerland, from Blaeu's townbook of Savoy and Piedmont: Theatrum Statuum Regiae Celsitudinis Sabaudiae Ducis, Pedemontii Principis ....

The map is after Borgonio and was engraved by Joannes de Broen and published by Blaeu's heirs. For another example of a work from this book, see: www.raremaps.com/gallery/archivedetail/19323

The separate maps from this work are rarely on the market.

Condition Description
Minor offsetting
Johannes et Cornelis Blaeu Biography

Willem Janszoon Blaeu, patriarch of the Blaeu cartographic dynasty, died in 1638. He had two sons, Cornelis (1610-1648) and Joan (1596-1673). Joan trained as a lawyer, but joined his father’s business rather than practice. After his father’s death, the brothers took over their father’s shop and Joan took on his work as hydrographer to the Dutch East India Company. Cornelis died in 1648, leaving his brother to carry on the workshop alone. Later in life, Joan would modify and greatly expand his father’s Atlas novus, eventually releasing his own masterpiece, the Atlas maior, between 1662 and 1672. The Blaeu workshop burned in 1672 and Joan died a year later.