New York / Connecticut / New Jersey map from the famous Atlas Blaeu - Van der Hem, Vienna.

 
Notes taken during the Symposium “Atlas Van der Hem”
Amsterdam, April 16, 2009 on the Atlas Blaeu – Van der Hem in the the Austrian National Library in Vienna on Hofburg square (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien).

 
More images listed below.
 
Kees Kaldenbach
 

Detail of Historic Map of New York State, plus Connecticut, New Jersey etc.

Key words: Novi Belgii, Virginiae, New Amsterdam, New Holland, quadrocentennial, quadricentennial, Nieuw Amsterdam,

For more Atlas Van der Hem - Blaeu images click on the pages below. Images listed below are 4 images provided by the Publisher for promotional purposes (© ONB).
 

Start here: Main Atlas project page

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NEW. For the first time on Internet: The Huber Birds eye view, 1777, of Vienna / Wien kept in the same building.

 
Literature:
 

Atlas van der Hem Catalogue Raisonné ;
http://cartography.geog.uu.nl/research/vanderhem.html

Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670 by Benjamin Schmidt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 450 pp.
http://mlq.dukejournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/64/3/389

Publisher of the Atlas van der Hem luxury reprint:
http://www.blaeuvanderhem.com

Note 1, see Unesco page

Note 2, map of Amsterdam with dots.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kalden/auth/zandvliet250rijksten.html

Contact information: Private Art Tours, Amsterdam.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kalden/verm/tourmenuENG.html

Drs. Kees Kaldenbach , kalden@xs4all.nl

Haarlemmermeerstraat 83 hs

1058 JS Amsterdam

The Netherlands

telephone 020 - 669 8119

(from abroad NL +20 - 669 8119)

cell phone 06 - 2868 9775

(from abroad NL +6 - 2868 9775)

 

How to get there (after your booking confirmation!):

- by car: ring road exit S 106 towards the centre, then 1st to the right (paid parking)

- by trams 1 and 17; exit at Surinameplein

- by tram 2; exit Hoofddorpplein.

 

Updated 18 July 2016.