Brasilia

Title:: Brasilia
Creator:: Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
Name on Item:: Johannes Blaeu.
Date:: [1650]
Format:: Maps/Atlases
Location:: Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
Collection (local):: Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Subjects:: Brazil--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:: Brazil
Extent:: 1 map : hand col. ; 37 x 48 cm.
Terms of Use:: No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:: Amsterdam : Chez I. Blaeu
Scale:: Scale ca. 1:10,000,000.
Language:: Latin
French
Notes:: Relief shown pictorially.
Oriented with north to the right.
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.
Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Atlas scanned by Internet Archive http://archive.org/details/letheatredumonde00blae
Notes (date):: This date is inferred.
Identifier:: 06_01_007860
Call #:: G1015 .B53 1650
Barcode:: 30000003771026