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).
Images listed below are 4 images provided by the publisher.
Kees Kaldenbach
Map of Deshima, Japan. Dejima, 't eylant Schisma'. For centuries, Dejima was the only gateway for traffic between Japan and the West.
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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:
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Note 1, see Unesco page
Note 2, map of Amsterdam with dots.
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