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Blaeu, Willem , and Jan. Le Theatre du monde. Amsterdam, Willem and Jan Blaeu, 1635. In 2nd (490 x 312 mm). Engraved frontispieces, and 43 maps in the first and 38 maps in the second volume, double-page (lightly browned, tears, flaws, and lacking.) Parchment editorial binding with grandefleuronin gold to the plates (flaws and lacking). Features: Anglia, Scotia, Hibernia, Regnorum Hispaniae, Biscaia et Guipuscoa, Aragonia et Navarra, Utriusque Castilliae, Legionis Regnum et Asturiarum principatus, Gallaecia, Valentia, Sabaudia Ducatus, La principauté d'Orange, Languedoc, Xaintonge, Dioecesis Sarlatensis, Lionnois, Bressia, La souverainete de Dombes, Borbonium, Nivernium, Loudonois, and Mirebalais, Pictaviae, Le gouvernement de l'Isle de France, Ager Parisiensis, Belsia, Gastinois et Senonois, Territorium Metense, Les souverainetez de Sedan, Valesium, Descriptio Veromanduorum and Gouvernement de la Cappelle, Flandria et Zeelandia, Galloflandria, Namurcum, Leodiensis, First part Brabantiae, Secunda pars Brabantiae, Tabula castelli ad Sanflitam, Tabula Bergarum ad Zomam Sternbergae, Mechlinia Dominium et Aerachot, Zutphania, Fossa quae a Rheno ad Mosam, Zuydhollandia, Delflandia, Typus Frisiae orientalis, Oldenburg, Meklenburg, Pomeraniae, Saxonia Superior, Thuringia, Mansfeldia, Braunswyck et Meydburg, Episcopatus Hildesiensis, Monasteriensis Episcopatus, Comitatus Bentheim, Iuliacensis et Montensis, Nassovia, Palatinatus ad Rhenum, Helvetia, Bohemia, Poland, Taurica Chersonesus, Tabula Russiae, Transylvania, Hungaria, Styria, Sclavonia, Walachia, Karstia, Church State, Corsique, Sardaigne, Kingdom of Naples, Cyprus, Natolia, Tartaria, Moluccae Insulae, Aethiopia, Guinea, Fezzae et Marocchi, Insulae Americanae, Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia. A list of missing papers exists upon request. (2)

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Blaeu, Willem , and Jan. Le Theatre du monde. Amsterdam, Willem and Jan Blaeu, 1635. In 2nd (490 x 312 mm). Engraved frontispieces, and 43 maps in the first and 38 maps in the second volume, double-page (lightly browned, tears, flaws, and lacking.) Parchment editorial binding with grandefleuronin gold to the plates (flaws and lacking). Features: Anglia, Scotia, Hibernia, Regnorum Hispaniae, Biscaia et Guipuscoa, Aragonia et Navarra, Utriusque Castilliae, Legionis Regnum et Asturiarum principatus, Gallaecia, Valentia, Sabaudia Ducatus, La principauté d'Orange, Languedoc, Xaintonge, Dioecesis Sarlatensis, Lionnois, Bressia, La souverainete de Dombes, Borbonium, Nivernium, Loudonois, and Mirebalais, Pictaviae, Le gouvernement de l'Isle de France, Ager Parisiensis, Belsia, Gastinois et Senonois, Territorium Metense, Les souverainetez de Sedan, Valesium, Descriptio Veromanduorum and Gouvernement de la Cappelle, Flandria et Zeelandia, Galloflandria, Namurcum, Leodiensis, First part Brabantiae, Secunda pars Brabantiae, Tabula castelli ad Sanflitam, Tabula Bergarum ad Zomam Sternbergae, Mechlinia Dominium et Aerachot, Zutphania, Fossa quae a Rheno ad Mosam, Zuydhollandia, Delflandia, Typus Frisiae orientalis, Oldenburg, Meklenburg, Pomeraniae, Saxonia Superior, Thuringia, Mansfeldia, Braunswyck et Meydburg, Episcopatus Hildesiensis, Monasteriensis Episcopatus, Comitatus Bentheim, Iuliacensis et Montensis, Nassovia, Palatinatus ad Rhenum, Helvetia, Bohemia, Poland, Taurica Chersonesus, Tabula Russiae, Transylvania, Hungaria, Styria, Sclavonia, Walachia, Karstia, Church State, Corsique, Sardaigne, Kingdom of Naples, Cyprus, Natolia, Tartaria, Moluccae Insulae, Aethiopia, Guinea, Fezzae et Marocchi, Insulae Americanae, Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia. A list of missing papers exists upon request. (2)

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