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Antique map of Belgium Brabant. A coloured copper-engraving. Size. 41,5×52,3 cm. Willem Janszoon or Willem Jansz. Blaeu (1571-1638), as he later called himself, and as he is more commonly known was one of the most noted Dutch cartographers and map publishers of the seventeenth Century. R.V. Tooley stated that Blaeu’s maps are ‘esteemed by collectors for their decorative quality, historical importance, and as the highest expression of Dutch cartographic art during the period of its supremacy’(Tooley 1969:28). After preparation as a pupil of the great Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe, Blaeu initially concentrated on globemaking and seperately published maps. From 1608, he dominated the market for sea atlases and in 1630 produced his terrestial atlas. These atlases were continued by his sons, culminating in the great Atlas Maior of 1662 in 11 volumes with subsequent editions Damaged, with small holes