EditorialJoan Blaeu's " Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593 plates bound in nine to twelve volumes. Volume 12: America. A council of the king of Powhatan, a kingdom of American Indians in Nova Virginia.
EditorialTwo officials carrying ceremonial maces, heralds with the imperial eagle on their coats, nobles leading a caparisoned horse, from the book on the funerary procession for Emperor Karl V, held in Brussels in 1558 Printers: Plantin-Moretus in Brussels.
EditorialSpanish nobles lead a riderless horse with Emperor Karl V's motto " Plus Ultra", in the funerary procession for Karl V held in Brussels in 1558. (The Emperor died in San Yuste and was buried in the Escorial, Spain) Book printed by Plantin-Mor...