BLAEU, J. - Belsia vulgo La Beausse.

In the left-hand lower part of the image a beautiful contemporary cartouche with goddess Ceres [agricultural] holding a reaping-hook in her right hand and receiving with her left hand the ribbons of two wyvern dragons pulling a car filled with grain from the Roman god of agriculture Saturn. In the upper right-hand part a coats of arm with three lilies and a coronet. The image is also decorated with five finely coloured cherubs[messengers of the gods]. The map shows the environs north-west of Paris.
From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu aimed of publishing 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".