Blaeu’s Map of Berkshire Date of Publication_1892 the bill of an Egyptian

the bill of an Egyptian Ibis and a Jamaican Hummingbird

engraved by Josiah Henshall after W

with some restoration to folds

joints renewed

Blaeu’s Map of Berkshire Date of Publication_1892 the bill of an EgyptianBlaeu 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