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Amstelodami, Apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1637. Copper engraving. Contemporary coloring. Measurement cm. 49.3 x 37.5, wide margins. Title enclosed in artistic cartouche. Latin text on the reverse. Burnishing, restoration along the central fold in the lower part.
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This map of Cyprus is based on the famous Ortelio 1573 map, but with artistic variations that make it the finest engraving of the island up to that time. It appeared for the first time in the second volume of Willem Blaeu's work, “Atlas Novus” published in 1635, using a copper that was part of a lot of 34 plates sold to Blaeu by Iodocus Hondius II, who did not own it, in 1629. Two years after its publication, Joannes Janssonius and Henricus Hondius, who in the meantime had remade the branches sold to Blaeu, made a replica which appeared in 1637. The two copper plates are difficult to distinguish, except for some minimal differences , like “Nocosia” instead of “Nicosia” in that of Jansonio. (12)