Blaeu’s Charterhouse of Pesio, near Cuneo in Piedmont fishing author of Travels in Europe

author of Travels in Europe

the government hastily improvised a 'cardboard fleet' (purchasing whatever warships it could on the open market)

First edition of this pocket county atlas (21 cm tall)

our copy from June 1861 might well have been with Bradshaw’s waiting to be supplied with a fresh timetable when Albert’s death in December made it unnecessary

Labarre to verso of box label

Blaeu’s Charterhouse of Pesio, near Cuneo in Piedmont fishing author of Travels in EuropeCartusia Vallis Pisii, fundata 1173 This is the Charterhouse of Pesio, a Carthusian foundation near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeus townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reissued (with Blaeus imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 38 x 52 cm, engraved by Juvenal Boetta, black and white, blank verso. References Koeman, Atlantes