Blaeu
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Their 1634 map of the West Indies, known informally as the Blaeu after the Dutch cartographer Willem Janszoon Blaeu who drew it, is one of only 10 in the world.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2014
Blaeu printed, in 1643, his Remarks on Justinian's Laws.
From The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works by Burigny, Jean Lévesque de
Meanwhile Colonel Elliot, we know, has no Catlockhill where he wants it; he has only Gatliehill, unless his Blaeu varies from my copy, and Gatliehill is not Catlockhill.
From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Lang, Andrew
Reigersberg, Blaeu, Vossius himself, however much devoted to Grotius, beheld with concern the printing of this book, because they did not doubt but it would increase the number of his enemies.
From The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands by Butler, Charles
The theological works were printed in four volumes in folio, by the heirs of Blaeu, at Amsterdam, in 1679.
From The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works by Burigny, Jean Lévesque de
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