Blaeu’s Map of Cardiganshire Date of Publication_1661 lighthouses/beacons highlighted in colour

lighthouses/beacons highlighted in colour

Edges untrimmed

Met alle steden

Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk often worked in partnership

quae quidem extant

Blaeu’s Map of Cardiganshire Date of Publication_1661 lighthouses/beacons highlighted in colourCeretica sive Cardiganensis Comitatus; Anglis Cardigan Shire Blaeu 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 of these great map houses