The National Library of Belarus has received a facsimile copy of the map Magni Ducatus Lithuanie, et Regionum Adiacentium exacta Descriptio (1648) as a gift from the Royal National Library of the Netherlands, BelTA learned from the National Library of Belarus.
The title of the map, in translation from Latin, means: “The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Surrounding Regions with Their Exact Description”. This is one of the later versions of the famous Radziwill’s map made by Tomasz Makowski (1575 – circa 1630), a printer, artist and engraver at the court of Prince Radziwill in Nesvizh, and Hessel Gerritz (1581–1632), a Dutch engraver and cartographer of Blaeu’s publishing house in Amsterdam.
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