Blaeu’s Map of County Durham Belgium contemporary blind-ruled calf

contemporary blind-ruled calf

in its kind incomparably more complete

Printed Maps of Victorian London

total sheet size 74 x 96 cm

This is the Camaldolese hermitage near Lanzo Torinese in Piedmont (which is visible on the hillside to the left)

Blaeu’s Map of County Durham Belgium contemporary blind-ruled calfBlaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced to bring out atlases of the British Isles in the 1630s and early 1640s, to add to their expanding world atlases. The work of the two firms represents Dutch map making of the highest quality at a time when the Low Countries were at the forefront of the international market. Both worked from Elizabethan and Jacobean surveys by Saxton, Speed and others, and based the