Blaeu’s Map of Guiana Atlases & Books with Maps The new postwar political boundaries

The new postwar political boundaries made fresh wall and pocket maps essential

Ereira also presents a provocative new reading of Ogilby's innovative and beautiful road atlas as a work of royalist propaganda – even expressed through the routes which he chose to include or emphasise

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close to the Punta de Anaga

Blaeu’s Map of Guiana Atlases & Books with Maps The new postwar political boundariesThis is a late issue of Blaeus map of Guiana, with full body colour typical of the later seventeenth century. Seventeenth and eighteenth century maps modelled on Raleighs discoveries typically show the mythical Lake Parime, as here, with the equally mythical city of Manoa, or el Dorado, on its shores. Long assumed to be entirely fictitious, geologists have now discovered traces of a great extinct lake in Roraima, Brazil. Slowly draining away, it