1662 Ukraine

UKRAINAE PARS, | QUA | KIOVIA PALATINATUS | Vulgo dicitur, Joan Blaeu (1662)The French military engineer Guillaume le Vasseur de Beauplan (1595-1685), completed in the first half of the 17th century the extensive survey of the Ukraine commissioned by the king of Poland Ladislaus IV. Apart from the extensive map of the Ukraine which was finished in 1639, De Beauplan worked for a long time on a detailed map in six sheets that was only finished in 1651. Joan Blaeu (1598-1673) reduced the size of this map to a series of four separate maps. This is the first sheet of the series.