Extima Scotiae Septentrionalis Ora: Blaeu 1654

Title: Extima Scotiae Septentrionalis Ora Author: Joan Blaeu Date: 1654 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Excellent Inches: 21 1/8 x 16 3/4 [Plate Mark] Centimeters: 53.66 x 42.55 [Plate Mark] Product ID: 3011002 Map of the Scottish Highlands including its counties and major geographic features, as well as cities of the region. Extima Scotiae Septentrionalis Ora, ubi Provinciae sunt Rossia, Sutherlandia, Cathensesia, Strath-Naverniae, cum vicinis regiunculis quae eis subsunt, etiamque Moravia. R. Gordonius a Strath-loch collegit et descripsit. "Northern coast of Scotland, where the provinces of Ross, Sutherland, Caithness, Strath-Navern are, with neighboring regionswhich are beneath them, and also Moray. R. Gordon from Strath-loch collected and recorded." Dutch cartographer Willem Blaeu (1571-1638), and later his heirs, dominated the world cartographic landscape for much of the seventeenth century. Blaeu studied under Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, o