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Copper engraving colored with watercolour. Title enclosed in artistic cartouche. Measures 50.5 x 38 plus margins. Latin text on the reverse.
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 (N.B. The plates signed “Guglielmum Blaeuw” are those sold by the widow Hondio and used in the printing of the “Atlanris Appendix”). 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, such as " Nocosia” instead of “Nicosia” in that of Jansonio. First state
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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.
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