Title Page for Blaeu’s Atlas Novus, vol. IV (British Isles) Date of Publication_c.1753 de iisdem philos

de iisdem philos

for the year of our Lord God 1737

apud Samuelem Luchtmans

department of military mapping and surveying

and Abbey notes that copies exist with varying numbers of plates (up to 19)

Title Page for Blaeu’s Atlas Novus, vol. IV (British Isles) Date of Publication_c.1753 de iisdem philos[Title page: Atlas Novus, volume IV] This is an architectural title page, engraved for the fourth volume of Blaeus Atlas Novus. The central panel is blank: a label in the appropriate language would normally have been pasted down. This is the British volume, and an ancient Briton presides over a Roman, a Saxon, a Dane and a Norman representing different epochs in British history. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 42 x 25 cm, original hand colour