BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aa, Abraham Jacob van der. Biographische woordenboek der Nederlanden. Haarlem, 1853. Vol. II, pp. 578-580.
Anonymous. W. J. Blaeu’s Antheil an der Bestimmung der Erdlängen. (Das Ausland. November, 1875. Stuttgart, 1875. Vol. XLVIII, No. 44, pp. 865-867.)
Anonymous. A Bibliographical Curiosity. (Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal. New Series. May 31, 1851. Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers, 1851. Vol. XV, pp. 374-376.)
Notice of Blaeu’s Atlas, 12 vols., 1667.
Barentszoen, Wi. Nieuwe beschryvinghe ende Caertboeck vande Midlandtsche Zee waerin meercklick afgebeeld en beschreven worden alle custen vande Midlandsche Zee ... W. B. Amst., Corn. Claesz ... 1595.
Baudet, P. J. H. Leven en werken van Willem Jansz. Blaeu. Uitgegeven door het Provincial Utrechtsch genootschap van kunsten en wetenschappen. XIII, 178 pp. Utrecht, C. van der Post, Jr., 1871.
—— Naschrift, 30 pp. 1872.
Baudet, P. J. H. Notice sur la part prise par Willem Jansz. Blaeu (1571-1638) dans la determination des longitudes terrestres. Utrecht, K. A. Manssen, 1875.
Baumgarten, Johannes. Zwei alte Globen von Blaeu. Erdkugel von 1599 und Himmel-Globis von 1603. (Das Ausland, 13. April, 1885. Stuttgart, 1885. No. 15, pp. 299-300.)
Clement, David. (Bibliothèque Curieuse. Göttingen, 1750-1760. Vol. IV, pp. 267-276.)
A bibliography of the Blaeu Atlases.
Dozy, Charles M. Willem Janszoon Blaeu. (Tijdschrift van het Nederlandsch aardrijkskundig genootschap, gevestigt te Amsterdam 1887. 2de Serie. Amsterdam, C. L. Brinkman, 1887. Vol. IV, pp. 206-215.)
Fiorini, Matteo. Sfere terrestri e celesti di autore italiano oppure fatte o conservate in Italia. Roma, Presso la Società Geografica Italiana, 1898.
See especially pp. 229-262, for a reference to the globes of Blaeu.
Foppens, J. F. Bibliotéca Belgica. Brux., 1680. Vol. I, p. 582.
Génard, Pierre Marie Nicolas Jean. Les globes de Guillaume Blaeu. (Société Geographie d’Anvers. Bulletin. 1883-84. Anvers, 1883. Tom. VIII, pp. 159-160.)
Hues, Robert. Tractatus de Globis. Londinum, 1594.
Jonge, de, J. K. J. De opkomst van het Nederlandsch gezag in Oost-Indie. Verzameling van onuitgeg. stukken in het Oud-koloniale archief. Met Register I-XIII. Gravenhage, 1862-1909. 16 vols.
Kästner, A. G. Geschichte der Mathematik seit der Wiederherstellung der Wissenschaften bis an das Ende des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts. Göttingen, 1796. 2 vols.
Löwenberg. Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Leipzig, 1875. Vol. II, pp. 686-688.
Lowery, Woodbury. Descriptive List of Maps of Spanish Possessions in the United States, 1502-1820. Edited by Philip Lee Phillips. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1912.
See pp. 133-135 for valuable bibliographical references.
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace. Rainy Days in a Library. New York, F. P. Harper, 1896, pp. 123-129.
A reference to Blaeu’s Atlas, 12 vols., ed. 1667.
Mercator, Ger. Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura.... Duisburgi Cliviorum, 1595.
We are informed on the title-page that the first and second parts appeared in 1585 or 1586, the third in 1589, and the fourth in 1595.
Moxon, J. (i.e., W. Blaeu.) A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography, or the use of the Copernican Spheres. London, 1665.
Ortelius, A. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Antverpiae, 1570.
Phillips, Philip Lee. List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, with bibliographical notes. Compiled under the direction of Philip Lee Phillips. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1909. Vol. I, pp. 196-197.
See, for a list of Blaeu’s Atlases, taken from Tiele: Niederlandsche Bibliographie, 1884.
Picard, M. Voyage d’Uranibourg, ou observations astronomiques faites en Dannemarck. (Mém. de l’Acad. Royale des Sciences de Paris depuis 1666 jusque à 1699, tom. VII.)
Raemdonck, J. van. Gérard Mercator, sa vie et ses œuvres. St. Nicholas, 1869.
Stevenson, Edward Luther, Ph.D., and Fischer, Joseph, S. J. Map of the World by Jodocus Hondius. Facsimile in eighteen sheets with text and key plate, issued under the joint auspices of The American Geographical Society and The Hispanic Society of America. New York, 1907.
Stower, C. The Printer’s Grammar. London, 1808, pp. 303-304.
“T.” Erste uitgave van Blaeu’s Licht der Zeevaert. (Bibliographische Adversaria. Gravenhage, M. Nijhoff, 1883-86. Vol. V, pp. 293-295.)
Tiele, Pieter Anton. Leven en werken van Willem Jansz. Blaeu, door P. J. Baudet ... 1871. (De Gids. 1872. Amsterdam, P. N. Van Kampen, 1872. Derde Serie, Vol. I, pp. 356-367.)
Tiele, Pieter Anton. Nederlandsche Bibliographie van Land- en Volkenkunde. Amsterdam, 1884.
See for bibliography of works of Blaeu, Mercator, Ortelius, et al.
Uffenbach, von, Zacharias Conrad. Merkwürdige Reisen durch Nieder-Sachsen, Holland und Engelland. Ulm, 1753. Vol. III, p. 600 et seq.
Vossius, G. J. De Scientiis mathematicis. 1660. Pp. 199, 263.
Quoted by Baudet.
Waghenaer, Lucas Jansz. Spieghel der Zeevaerdt van de navigatie der Westersche Zee. Leyden, 1584.
Waghenaer, Lucas Jansz. Spieghel der Zeevaert inhoudende de geheele Noordtsche ende Oostersche Scheepvaert. Leyden, 1585.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BLAEU’S PRINCIPAL
GEOGRAPHICAL PUBLICATIONS
Nova Universi Terrarum Orbis Mappa ex Optimis Quibusque Geographicis hydrographicisque Tabulis Summa Industria Accuratissime Delineata et Duobus Planisphaeriis Graphice Depicta à Guliel Janssonio Alcmar. Amsterdam, 1605.
It is this unique map which has been here reproduced.
Nieuw graetbouck, nae den ouden styl vuyt de aldercorrecste observaten van den vermaerden astronomo Tycho Brahe, gecalculeert ende gestelt op ten meridiaen deser Nederlanden.
Baudet finds that, from the octroi or patent, this was probably issued in 1605. There does not appear to be a copy of this work extant.
Le Flambeau de la navigation, monstrant la description et delineation de toutes les costes et havres de la Mer Occidentale, Septentrionale et Orientale ... Par Guilliaume Janszoon. Amst., Guill. Jansz ... 1619.
Het Licht der Zee-vaert daerinne claerlijck beschreven ende aufghebeeldet werden alle de custen ende havenen vande Westersche, Noordsche, Oostersche ende Middelandsche Zeën.... Door Willem Janszoon. Amst., ghedr. bij Willem Janszoon ... 1620.
Baudet finds that the first and second volumes of this work must have been issued first in 1608, there being a reference to the same in a resolution of the States General of that year.
Tweevoudigh onderwys van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot; het ander Na de natuerlycke stelling van N. Copernicus met een loopenden Aerdkloot. Beschreven door Willem Jz. Blaeu. En gevoeght na de Globen en Sphaeren by hem uytgeven.
Date of original issue is not known; between 1620 and 1669 there were five issues in Dutch, five in Latin, and three in French.
’T Derde deel van ’t Licht der Zeevaert, inhoudende de Beschryvinghe der Zee Custen van de Middelandtsche Zee. Byeenvergaedert ende in ’t licht ghebracht door Willem Janssen tot Amsterdam by Willem Jansz. op’t Water in de Vergulde Sonnewyser Anno 1621.
Baudet finds that the first issue of this was in 1618.
Zeespiegel, inhoudende een korte onderwysinghe in de konst der zeevaert, en beschryvinghe der seen en kusten van de Oostersche, Noordsche en Westersche schipvaert ... door Willem Jansz. Blaeuw ... Amsterdam, W. Jz. Blaeuw ... 1623.
Reissued by John Blaeu, corrected and enlarged, in 1650.
Tafelen van de declinatie der Sonne, ende der voornaemste vaste sterren Mitsgaders van ’t verscheyden gebruyck der Noordsterre Nieulycx, allen Zeevaerenden ten dienst, ghecalculeert door Willem Jansz. Blauw. t’ Amsterdam. By Willem Jansz. Blauw in de gulde Sonnewyser met Privilegie Anno 1625.
Appendix Theatri A. Ortelii et Atlantis G. Mercatoris continens tabulas geograph. diversarum orbis regionum nunc. prim. editas cum descriptionibus. Amst., apud Guilj. Blaeuw, 1631.
Het nieuwe Licht der zeevaert ofte havenwyser van de Oostersche, Noordsche en Westersche zeen. Amst., W. Jz. Blaeu ... 1634.
Toonneel des aerdrycx ofte nieuwe Atlas, dat is beschryving van all landen; nu nieulycx uytgegeven ... Amst., Guilj. et Joh. B., 1635.
Two parts, with third part added in 1642. June 24, 1634, Blaeu wrote to his friend Schickard: “I have published the first part of my atlas, containing 160 maps, with the description in German, translated from the Latin. Next fall, I shall publish the Latin, French and Dutch text.”
Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive Atlas novus, in quo tabulae et descriptiones omnium regionum ... Amst., Guil. et Joa. Blaeu, 1635. 2 vols.
A French edition was issued in 1638; a Latin, Dutch, French and German edition, in three volumes, in 1640; a Dutch edition in 1642; a fourth volume in Latin, Dutch, French and German in 1646; a six-volume edition in 1649-1655.
De groote Zee-spiegel. inhoudende een korte Onderswijsinge in de konst der zeevaert en eene beschrijvinge der seekusten van de Oostersche, Noordsche en Westersche schipvaert enz ... Door W. Jz. B. Niewelijcx ... verbetert en vermeerdert. Amst. Joan Blaeu ... 1655, 1658.
Atlas major sive Cosmographia Blaviana, qua solum, salum, coelum accuratissime describuntur. Amst., Joa. Blaeu, 1662. 11 vols.
A second edition of the first part in 1665.
Grooten Atlas oft Werelt-beschryving, in welcke ’t aertryck, de zee en hemel wordt vertoont en beschreven. Amst., J. B., 1664-1665. 9 vols.
Le grand Atlas ou Cosmographie Blaviane. 12 vols. Issued also in the Latin, the Dutch and the Spanish language.
Globes dated:
| Terrestrial, 1599 | Celestial, 1606 |
| Terrestrial, 1602 | Celestial, 1616 |
| Celestial, 1602 | Terrestrial, 1616 |
| Celestial, 1603 | Terrestrial, 1622 |
| Terrestrial, 1606 | Celestial, 1622 |
Globes undated are numerous. Blaeu’s name appears on his globes as Guilielmus Jansonius Alcmariensis, Guilielmus Jansonius Blaeu, Guilielmus Jansonius Alcmarianus, Guiljelmus Blaeuw, Guiljelmus Caesius.
No attempt has been made in the foregoing list to include a reference to all known editions.
