Title Pages of Joan Blaeu's "Geographia"
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Identifier
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Erfle3
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Title
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Title Pages of Joan Blaeu's "Geographia"
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Description
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The title page of Joan Blaeu's atlas written in Latin, "Geographia." Joan Blaeu was a Dutch cartographer, continuing the cartography legacy of his father, Willem Blaeu. The page following the publishers information is a drawing of the New World, "America." The drawing is centered around a naked Native woman with slaves working in the background, angels in the sky holding a banner that says "America," what appears to be Mary holding a cross, an anglo-european slaying a devil, and a ship docked in the background.
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Creator
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Joan Blaeu
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Date Created
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1662
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Publisher
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Amsterdam: Labore & Sumpitbus
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Bibliographic Citation
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Joan Blaeu. Geographia. Amsterdam, 1662.
