Willem Janszoon Blaeu, 1571-1638 : $b a sketch of his life and work, with an especial reference to his large world map of 1605, facsimile of the unique copy belonging to the Hispanic society of AmericaStevenson, Edward Luther
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Willem Janszoon Blaeu, 1571-1638 : $b a sketch of his life and work, with an especial reference to his large world map of 1605, facsimile of the unique copy belonging to the Hispanic society of America
Stevenson, Edward Luther
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638; Early maps
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---- Naschrift, 30 pp. 1872.
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(1571-1638) dans la determination des longitudes terrestres. Utrecht,
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1885. No. 15, pp. 299-300.)
CLEMENT, DAVID. (Bibliothèque Curieuse. Göttingen, 1750-1760. Vol. IV,
pp. 267-276.)
A bibliography of the Blaeu Atlases.
DOZY, CHARLES M. Willem Janszoon Blaeu. (Tijdschrift van het
Nederlandsch aardrijkskundig genootschap, gevestigt te Amsterdam 1887.
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fatte o conservate in Italia. Roma, Presso la Società Geografica
Italiana, 1898.
See especially pp. 229-262, for a reference to the globes of Blaeu.
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der Wissenschaften bis an das Ende des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts.
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in the United States, 1502-1820. Edited by Philip Lee Phillips.
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1912.
See pp. 133-135 for valuable bibliographical references.
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A reference to Blaeu’s Atlas, 12 vols., ed. 1667.
MERCATOR, GER. Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi
et fabricati figura.... Duisburgi Cliviorum, 1595.
We are informed on the title-page that the first and second parts
appeared in 1585 or 1586, the third in 1589, and the fourth in 1595.
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Congress, with bibliographical notes. Compiled under the direction of
Philip Lee Phillips. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1909.
Vol. I, pp. 196-197.
See, for a list of Blaeu’s Atlases, taken from Tiele: Niederlandsche
Bibliographie, 1884.
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