Price: £715.00

• Date: 1635
• Condition: AA
• Colour: Original
• Size: 19"x15"

Title: 'Novus Brasilia Typus'.

Willem Blaeu's map of Brazil based on an earlier map by de Laet. For a time in the 1630s up to 1654, the Dutch, and particularly the Dutch West India Company, controlled large portions of Brazil. There is an inset map at the top of Bahia de Toros os Santos, or Salvador.
This map is noted for its interesting vignettes on the map, including a scene of cannibals, taken from the earliest accounts and maps of the New World (Munster's 1540 map of the Americas shows a similar scene in the area of Brazil). Two large compass roses dominate the ocean.

This map was first engraved for Jodocus Hondius II and was among the copperplates purchased by Blaeu in 1629 after Hondius II's death in that year.

In very good condition.