BLAEU, J. - Ager Parisiensis vulgo l'Isle de France. Fr. Guilloterius Bitur. Viu. describ. et CL.V.Petro Pithoeo I.C. dedicabat.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. From the 1634 edition of Blaeu's Atlas Novus, the first edition of this work.

A detailed map of the Isle de France centered on Paris and its surroundings. Indication of the castle of Vincennes and of the lost one of Madrid near the Bois de Boulogne.
Showing also Poissy, Pontoise, Senlis, Saint-Denis, Aulnay, Meaux, etc. A very decorative title cartouche surmounted by two cherubs holding the royal arms. An interesting map showing how much larger the French capital has become over the past four centuries.
From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu aimed to publish an atlas to compete with the Hondius-Jansson Atlas. By 1630, he had published at least 17 folio size maps.
Blaeu was able to realize his plan soon after he had acquired the copper plates of the atlas maps by Jodocus Hondius. The "Appendix followed in 1630.
In 1635, he finally realized a "international edition" of a world atlas, the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum".

From an incomplete example of the 1634 German text edition of Blaeu's "Novus Atlas", previously owned by Johann Christoph Gesen (1639), Johann Rudolph von Metzradt (1651), Friedrich August II, King of Saxony (1797-1854).
P. van der Krogt mentions two variants for the German 1634 text edition and only two examples containing proof states (Bad Münstereifel and Gotha).