The Continents
The Americas
The New World, framed with its cities and peoples.
- Map
- Americae Nova Tabula
- Mapmaker
- Willem Blaeu
- Date
- c. 1617
- Held by
- Helmink Antique Maps
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Blaeu's map of the Americas is a carte à figures — the map itself bordered above by views of the great cities of the New World, from Havana to Cusco to Mexico, and flanked by the peoples of two continents in their dress. Galleons and sea monsters churn through both oceans; California is still, correctly, a peninsula. It is the European imagination of the Americas at its most sumptuous and its most revealing, the finest continental map of the Golden Age. One quarter of a classic four-continent set.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Helmink Antique Maps — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on matte paper that holds every line without glare.
