Blaeu’s Map of Guiana Atlases & Books with Maps

Blaeu’s Map of Guiana Atlases & Books with MapsThis is a late issue of Blaeus map of Guiana, with full body colour typical of the later seventeenth century. Seventeenth and eighteenth century maps modelled on Raleighs discoveries typically show the mythical Lake Parime, as here, with the equally mythical city of Manoa, or el Dorado, on its shores. Long assumed to be entirely fictitious, geologists have now discovered traces of a great extinct lake in Roraima, Brazil. Slowly draining away, it

light waterstain bottom right

but the real Rivers Thames

Vulgo Cumberland & Westmorland

The new postwar political boundaries made fresh wall and pocket maps essential

minor spotting

and wear to headcaps)

light waterstain in lower margin

close to the Punta de Anaga

La Bataille de Lens en Flandre gaignee par l’Armee du tres Chres[tien] Louys XIIII Roy de France ed de Navarre

Ereira also presents a provocative new reading of Ogilby's innovative and beautiful road atlas as a work of royalist propaganda – even expressed through the routes which he chose to include or emphasise

Vorstellung des Alten und Neven Athens

suggesting that our example was issued after the change in title but before the number 9 was added