Blaeu’s Map of Guiana Atlases & Books with Maps light waterstain in lower margin

light waterstain in lower margin

La Bataille de Lens en Flandre gaignee par l’Armee du tres Chres[tien] Louys XIIII Roy de France ed de Navarre

close to the Punta de Anaga

Vorstellung des Alten und Neven Athens

Blaeu’s Map of Guiana Atlases & Books with Maps light waterstain in lower marginThis 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