Netherlands: 'De Heere Michiel Adriatnsz De Ruyter Ridder Lt Admirael Over De Provintie Van Hollandt En Westfrieslandt' (Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, 1607-1676). 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.

Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter is the most famous, and one of the most skilled admirals in Dutch history, and is particularly renowned for his role in the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th century.

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