Antique Map of Peru in South America by Blaeu, circa 1645

Name: Antique Map of Peru in South America by Blaeu, circa 1645
Brand: Blaeu
SKU: BG-12825
Price: 840 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1645
Maker: Blaeu
Kind: Maps
Technique: Engraved
Size: 46 × 57 cm (18.1 × 22.4 in)
Condition: Fair. General age-related toning, original folding line. Some waterstains, slightly affecting image. Few small holes in bottom margin. French text on verso, please study images carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Peru, South America
Reference: BG-12825

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Peru and the coast of the Pacific, titled "Peru" in a decorative cartouche, an original engraved map published by W. Blaeu of Amsterdam, circa 1645. The sheet carries original hand color in green, blue, pink and yellow, with a colored border.

The ornate strapwork title cartouche stands at the upper left. The coast runs diagonally from the upper right to the lower left, with the Pacific lettered "Mar del Zur" across the open water, where three sailing ships, two sea-monsters and a compass rose with lines of rhumb radiating from it fill the empty sea. Along the left edge the "Linea Aequinoctialis" is marked and the Tropic of Capricorn at the right. The Andes are drawn in profile across the interior, with rivers and lakes picked out at the top, and towns and provinces are named across the sheet, among them Pacamores, Moias and Mana. The Amsterdam imprint of Blaeu is lettered at the lower right.

Blaeu's maps of the New World were standard reference sheets in the Dutch atlases of the seventeenth century.

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