73. "Ottoman Empire" map by Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Amsterdam, ca. 1635

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73. "Ottoman Empire" map by Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Amsterdam, ca. 1635

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copper engraving, laid paper, hand-coloured, 52.5 x 61.5 cm

Geographer, cartographer and editor Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) published at Amsterdam in 1635 the work "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" to which this piece belongs, one of the most important cartographic works in Europe of that time. The copy is a copper engraving, sepia, with the frontispiece coloured by hand after it was printed.

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