Blaeu’s Map of Berkshire Date of Publication_1892 due to demand for cotton

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

engraved by Josiah Henshall after W

with Duke Henry

with some restoration to folds

Deeply revealing as well as hugely entertaining

Blaeu’s Map of Berkshire Date of Publication_1892 due to demand for cottonBlaeu 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