[890] [It is not easy to discriminate between these editions, as copies are often made up of various dates; but I have observed these dates: 1642, 1645, 1647, 1649, 1650, 1655, 1658, etc. The Dutch inscriptions on these earlier maps of New Netherland are quite different from those on the Latin later ones.—Ed.]
[891] [Sabin’s Dictionary, ii. 5,714; Baudet’s Leven en Werken van W. J. Blaeu, Utrecht, 1871, pp. 76, 114.—Ed.]
[892] [Cf. a dissertation on his work in Clément’s Bibliothèque curieuse, iv. 287.—Ed.]
[893] [From 1659 to 1672 it was issued with Spanish text, ten volumes, but not including the American parts; in 1662 to 1665, with Latin text, eleven volumes, the last devoted to America, usually with twenty-three maps; in 1663, in French, twelve volumes; in 1664 to 1665 in Dutch, but somewhat abridged. (Cf. Asher’s List, Muller’s Catalogue, Armstrong’s Fort Nassau, p. 7, on the map of 1645 particularly.) Muller says of this final edition: “The part treating of America may be regarded as the first atlas of what is now the United States, in the same sense as Wytfliet may be called the first special atlas of America in general.” He afterwards added a Theatrum Urbium. The younger Blaeu also issued, in 1648, an immense map of the world in two hemispheres, twenty-one sheets. (Hallam’s Literature of the Middle Ages, iv, 48; Muller’s Catalogue, 1877, no. 346).—Ed.]
[894] [It was based on Mercator’s plates, which were bought in 1604 by his father-in-law, Iodocus Hondius, an engraver, who was born in 1546; worked in London, where he learned the Wright-Mercator projection, and later published maps in Amsterdam, including the new edition of Mercator, adding new plates, and died in 1611. But subsequent editions (1617-1635), etc., of the atlas were known as Mercator’s and Hondius’s. Sabin’s Dictionary, ii. 5014.—Ed.]
[895] Quaritch’s Catalogue, 259, nos. 19 and 20.
[896] [The same Jansson map of New Netherland is reproduced in his Atlas Contractus of 1666. Some editions of Jansson’s Novus Atlas have the same text as Blaeu’s, with the maps, of course, different from Blaeu’s.—Ed.]
[897] [This map is given in Vol. III.—Ed.]
[898] See New York Colonial Documents, xii. 183.
[899] [List of the Maps and Charts of New Netherland, Amsterdam, 1855, and usually bound with his Bibliographical Essay.—Ed.]