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

contemporary blind-ruled calf

total sheet size 74 x 96 cm

original hand colour with later additions to the cartouche

torn and stained bookjackets

Wallis did reissue this game in 1802

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