Blaeu’s Map of Guiana Atlases & Books with Maps light waterstain bottom right

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Ereira also presents a provocative new reading of Ogilby's innovative and beautiful road atlas as a work of royalist propaganda – even expressed through the routes which he chose to include or emphasise

Vorstellung des Alten und Neven Athens

Vulgo Cumberland & Westmorland

close to the Punta de Anaga

Blaeu’s Map of Guiana Atlases & Books with Maps light waterstain bottom rightThis is a late issue of Blaeus map of Guiana, with full body colour typical of the later seventeenth century. Seventeenth and eighteenth century maps modelled on Raleighs discoveries typically show the mythical Lake Parime, as here, with the equally mythical city of Manoa, or el Dorado, on its shores. Long assumed to be entirely fictitious, geologists have now discovered traces of a great extinct lake in Roraima, Brazil. Slowly draining away, it