Clüver, Philipp

Clüver was a geographer and the founder of historical geography. Many of the maps in his six-part “Introductio in universam geographiam…” were etched by Petrus Bertius. Dating his map “Veteris et Novæ Regni Poloniæ Magniq Ducatus Lithuaniæ…” is difficult, given not just the three states of the plate (see image gallery above), with changes in the cartouche, mileage chart, and labeling — Latin or English — but because of the more than two editions noted by “Imago Poloniae”: 1697, by Johan Wolters, and 1729, by Petrus de Coup. There were 17 editions between 1624 and 1729. In the gallery, there are just some of title pages.