Blaeu’s Map of Berkshire Date of Publication_1892 with some restoration to folds

with some restoration to folds

one of which is in King George III’s Topographical Collection

Deeply revealing as well as hugely entertaining

due to demand for cotton from northern textile mills and heavy involvement with the Atlantic slave trade

engraved by Josiah Henshall after W

Blaeu’s Map of Berkshire Date of Publication_1892 with some restoration to foldsBlaeu 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