Laurens van der Hem
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Laurens van der Hem, was a Dutch lawyer and a collector of maps and landscape prints. He is known today for commissioning his meticulously thorough personal version of the Atlas Maior, itself a major
Herengracht 115, former address of Laurens van der Hem, in 1890 unrecognizably rebuilt after a design by Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Elmina Castle on the coast of modern-day Ghana
Fort Zeelandia, Dutch Formosa (modern-day Taiwan)
Atlas Maior
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The Atlas Maior is a seventeenth-century multi-volume atlas produced by the Dutch cartographer and publisher Joan Blaeu, issued in Amsterdam between 1662 and 1672. It represents the final and most ext
Laurens van der Hem
…was a Dutch lawyer and a collector of maps and landscape prints. He is known today for commissioning his meticulously thorough personal version of the Atlas Maior, itself a major work of cartography and art published by his contemporary and friend Joan Blaeu. Van der Hem was born in Amsterdam as the son of the…
Atlas Blaeu - Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken
Front page of the Atlas novus, forerunner of the Atlas maior, 1645