De Eijlanden Tenerifa Palma Gomera en Ferro

Original antique map of the western Canary Islands, engraved by Willem Janszoon Blaeu and published in Amsterdam in 1624. The map depicts four islands of the archipelago: Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera, and El Hierro. Each island is oriented with north at the top and shows the mountainous relief, with Mount Teide standing out in Tenerife as the highest peak. Place names are written in Spanish and mark the main coastal towns and geographical features of each island. The map was published during the period when the Canary Islands served as a strategic stopover on maritime routes to America and Africa, becoming an essential provisioning point for European fleets. Willem Janszoon Blaeu was one of the most prominent cartographers and publishers of the Dutch Golden Age, founder of the Blaeu publishing house in Amsterdam, which produced atlases and maps widely circulated in Europe during the seventeenth century. Copper engraving.