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Brasilia – Joan Blaeu, 1650

Willem Janszoon Blaeu's Le theatre du monde, ou, Nouuel atlas.

Oriented with north to the right, this map shows the eastern portion of Brazil. Includes an ornamental cartouche, and illustrations of ships and putti. “Generis nobilitate, armorium et litterarum scientia prestantmo. Heroi Christoph ab Artischau Arciszewski, nuper in Brasilia per triennium tribuno militum Prudentiss. Fortiss. Feliciss. tabulam hanc prono cultu D.D.D. Johannes Blaeu.”

Appears in Willem Janszoon Blaeu’s Le theatre du monde, ou, Nouuel atlas. Amsterdam: Chez I. Bleau, 1650.