Granata Et Murcia Regna – Seville – Alicante – Malaga – Cordoba – Alcala Real – Granada – Almeira – Straits Of Gibraltar – Original Copper Engraved Map – 1645

Publisher: Blaeu, Joan & Blaeu, Willem
Price: £250
Publication Date: Not dated but c.1645
Format: Original copper engraving with original or early hand-colouring
Condition: In very good plus condition, unframed
Sheet Size: 62.1cm x 53.7cm

Condition:

Date: c.1645. Dutch text to the reverse. Sheet Size: 62.1cm x 53.7cm. Original or early hand-colouring. Original central fold lines. Minor creasing. Very minor age-toning but generally very bright and clean with very good, wide margins. A strong impression. Overall in very good plus condition. Scarce thus.

Description:

A mid-seventeenth-century copper-engraved regional map by the Amsterdam house of Willem and Joan Blaeu, depicting the Kingdoms of Granada and Murcia in south-eastern Iberia. Issued for the Atlas Novus and later Blaeu atlases, the sheet blends scholarly cartography with courtly decoration, intended equally for reference and display.

Geographic scope and content

• Coverage: From the Alborán coast (Málaga–Almería) across the Sierra Nevada and associated sierras to the Segura basin and Mediterranean littoral of Murcia (Cartagena–Murcia–Orihuela fringe), touching the Valencian frontier to the north-east and Upper Andalusia (Jaén) inland.
• Urban hierarchy: Major centres are clearly stepped in type size: Granada, Málaga, Almería, Guadix, Baza, Loja, and on the Murcian side Murcia, Cartagena, Lorca, with market towns and ports in smaller italic types.
• Hydrography: Blaeu emphasises the Genil (issuing from the Sierra Nevada), Guadalfeo, Andarax, Almanzora, and, to the east, the Segura with its tributary the Guadalentín. Rivers are continuous and logically placed, a hallmark of the workshop’s editorial checks.
• Relief and routes: Mountain systems are rendered in the period’s hill-shade “molehills”, making passes legible (notably across the Nevada and the Segura headwaters). Settlement strings along valley floors hint at overland routes between court, cathedral cities and ports.
• Littoral detail: The coast shows crenulated headlands and capes—e.g., Cabo de Gata and Cabo de Palos—with harbours and roadsteads carefully named, reflecting the maritime economy.

Location: Map Drawer C: SR: 003024

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