Malta - Blaeu - 1662
Title: Melite Insula, Vulgo Malta.
Place published / Year: Amsterdam, 1662
Mapmaker / Publisher: Joan Blaeu.
Technique: Modern reproduction on laid paper.
Size (exc. margins): 39.7 x 54.3 cm.
Decorative map of Malta published by Joan Blaeu (1598-1673) for the twelve-volume atlas: Atlas Maior, sive Cosmographia Blaviana, qua solum, salum, coelum, accuratissime describuntur. The Atlas Maior was one of the most expensive and extensive publications of the 17th century. This twelve-volume set contained almost 600 maps and thousands of pages of descriptions.
Size (exc. margins):
39.7 x 54.3 cm.
Technique:
Modern reproduction on laid paper.