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Johannes et Cornelis Blaeu / Pierre Mortier

Title

Ukrainae Pars Quae Barclavia Palatinatus Vuglo dictur

Publication Place / Date

Amsterdam / 1700 circa

Image Dimensions

17.5 x 21.5 inches

Color

Hand Colored

Condition

Stock# 40566

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Description

Detailed regional map of Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland, based upon a 4 sheet map of the Ukraine by Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan.

The map was first published by Blaeu circa 1670 and later re-issued by Mortier and by Covens & Mortier.

Condition Description

Old Color. Some minor toning.

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.

Pierre Mortier Biography

Pierre, or Pieter, Mortier (1661-1711) was a Dutch engraver, son of a French refugee. He was born in Leiden. In 1690 he was granted a privilege to publish French maps in Dutch lands. In 1693 he released the first and accompanying volume of the Neptune Francois. The third followed in 1700. His son, Cornelis (1699-1783), would partner with Johannes Covens I, creating one of the most important map publishing companies of the eighteenth century.