Decorative Vintage World Map - Novus Planiglobii Terrestris - Blaeu \u0026 Valck - 1695 - Framed Prints Frame:Framed with Mat with a view of pedestrians

with a view of pedestrians walking on the street

One of the worlds leading financial centres and the site of the original settlement of this great city

yellow orange combination for pure joy

Some details of the map may have been influenced by a 1568 description of Japan in a manuscript by Vaz Dourado

You have got to let grow

Decorative Vintage World Map - Novus Planiglobii Terrestris - Blaeu \u0026 Valck - 1695 - Framed Prints Frame:Framed with Mat with a view of pedestriansThis uncommon, beautifully engraved map showing the world on a polar projection was the final world map executed by Johannes Blaeu in circa 1672. A tragic fire destroyed the Blaeu company that same year before the map was published. The plate itself survived and was acquired by Gerald Valck, who replaced Blaeu's imprint with his own. Traces of the original imprint can still be discerned in the cartouche. The map shows California as an island; the only