Mercator’s Map of Pays Boulonnais & Guînes Printed Area Measurement_20.5 x 30.5 cm Bacon’s large scale plan of

Bacon’s large scale plan of the City of London

The Central London Railway produced a considerable quantity of advertising material in the Edwardian period

first bound up with the Bible

The name 'Isle of St Laurence' was given by the Portuguese

Town views and plans were all taken from direct observation rather than improvised in the manner of some earlier geographical works - it was not unknown for the same view to appear in more than one guise

Mercator’s Map of Pays Boulonnais & Guînes Printed Area Measurement_20.5 x 30.5 cm Bacon’s large scale plan ofThis is Mercator's map of Pays Boulonnais and Gunes from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the London trade in the 1620s Janssonius commissioned new ones from Pieter van den Keere and Abraham Goos. Koeman attributes the relatively low number of Dutch editions to the prevalance of Latin and French among the better circumstanced people potential buyers of atlases. Condition & Materials