Africa: 'Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum sive Presbiteri Joannis Imperium' (Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, the Realm of Prester John). Atlas Blaeu, Laurens Van der Hem, c. 1665

The Atlas Maior is the final version of Joan Blaeu's atlas, published in Amsterdam between 1662 and 1672, in Latin (11 volumes), French (12 volumes), Dutch (9 volumes), German (10 volumes) and Spanish (10 volumes), containing 594 maps and around 3000 pages of text.

It was the largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century. Earlier, much smaller versions, titled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive, Atlas Novus, were published from 1634 onwards.

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