Map of Mechelen, from Rapin’s History Printed Area Measurement_31.5 x 41.5 cm due to demand for cotton

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

33 x 40 cm

20th century book labels and ink stamp of Buckfast Abbey

the first age of near universal map literacy

modern hand colour

Map of Mechelen, from Rapin’s History Printed Area Measurement_31.5 x 41.5 cm due to demand for cottonMechelin, or Malines, the Capital of one of the ten Provinces of the Netherlands in Brabant This map of Mechelen was engraved by James Basire and published in Nicholas Tindal's continuation of Rapin de Thoyras's History of England. Many of the maps illustrating the work depict military actions fought by the British during the campaigns of the War of the Spanish Succession, mostly in Spain and the Low Countries. The Allies in the context of this