Sweden, Norrland, Lapland J. Blaeu, 1662, Nordlandiae et quibies Gestricia et Helsingicae Regiones…

A fine antique map of Norrland and Lapland, in the northern part of Sweden, with two cartouches, a figured title cartouche and a heraldic cartouche, with a total of six coats-of-arms including Helsingia, Medelpadia, Angermannia, Bothnia, Iemptia and Gestriciae. After Andrea Buraeo Sueco.

Anders Bure (1571-1646) is was one of the most important map makers in the history of Scandinavian cartography. Bure was a mathematician, instruments maker and cartographer by his training. His maps were copied and used by Dutch mapmakers including Hondius, Blaeu and Visscher as the basis for their maps of northern Europe.

This map first appeared in the 1662 edition of Blaeu's Atlas Maior and is therefore quite scarce on the market.

Joan, or Johannes, Blaeu (1596-1673) was the son of Willem Janszoon Blaeu. He inherited his father's meticulous and striking mapmaking style and continued the Blaeu workshop until it burned in 1672. After his father's death in 1638, Joan and his brother, Cornelis, took over their father's shop and Joan took on his work as hydrographer to the Dutch East India Company.
Joan also modified and greatly expanded his father's Atlas novus, first published in 1635. All the while, Joan was honing his own atlas. He published the Atlas maior between 1662 and 1672. It is one of the most sought-after atlases by collectors and institutions today due to the attention to the detail, quality, and beauty of the maps.

Ref; Van der Krogt 2, 601-3

Excellent condition

Image 41x47,5cm, sheet 53,5x63cm