Blaeu’s Plan of Moûtiers Date of Publication_1703 It illustrates the Dutch voyage

It illustrates the Dutch voyage of 1594 by Willem Barentsz in search of a northeast passage

Mercator became aware of the Butlers wars of the 1560s and 1570s - power struggles between two of the leading Anglo-Irish families (the Butlers and the Fitzgeralds) in Elizabethan Ireland - and the subsequent claims of the adventurer Sir Peter Carew

a chart of the Caspian Sea after Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

set within a decorative border designed to look like a frame

is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri

Blaeu’s Plan of Moûtiers Date of Publication_1703 It illustrates the Dutch voyageMoustiers Blaeus townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reissued (with Blaeus imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. Motiers lies in Savoie; note the salt works in the foreground. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 46. 5 x 62 cm, engraved by Joannes de Ram, black and white, upper margin trimmed to printed area, old paper repair on blank verso. References Koeman Bl 80