The map
is laminated in high quality, crystal clear, 125 micron gloss plastic film;
this process makes the map much brighter and more attractive. It is then framed
in slender, satin finish aluminium in one of four colourways; silver, gold,
black or mahogany effect. The frame has a very easy and user-friendly mounting
system with key-hole slots and requires only the fixing of two round headed
screws to hang.
There are
two board options -
- Pinboard - a gloss
encapsulated map mounted on stiff, lightweight and pinnable
foamboard.
- Magnetic - a gloss
encapsulated map mounted on stiff, lightweight, magnetic receptive and
pinnable foamboard.
Once they
have been made up to your specification, our framed maps are sent out bubble
wrapped, with dense foam protection on all four edges and finally encased in
sturdy dual-wall cardboard.
They are
ideal for the home, classroom or boardroom.
Willem
Jansz Blaeu was a Dutch cartographer, atlas maker and publisher. The son of a
well-to-do herring salesman, he was expected to take over his father's business
but he was more interested in Mathematics and Astronomy. Between 1594 and 1596
he was a student of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and he qualified as an
instrument and globe maker.
When he
returned to Holland, he made country maps and world globes, and as he had his
own print shop, he published country maps in an atlas format on a regular
basis, some of these appeared in the Atlas Novus published in 1635. In 1633 he
became map-maker for the Dutch East India Company. He was also an editor and
published the works of Willebrord Snell, Adriaan Metius, Gerhard Johann Vossius
and the historian and poet Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft.
He had
two sons, Johannes and Cornelis Blaeu. They carried on their father's mapmaking
and publishing business after his death in 1638.
This captivating and beautiful map is
thought to date from 1665.