Title Pages of Joan Blaeu's "Geographia"

Item

Identifier

Erfle3

Title

Title Pages of Joan Blaeu's "Geographia"

Description

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.

Creator

Joan Blaeu

Date Created

1662

Publisher

Amsterdam: Labore & Sumpitbus

Bibliographic Citation

Joan Blaeu. Geographia. Amsterdam, 1662.

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