Blome’s Map of Lincolnshire Mapmaker(s)_Olfert Dapper

Blome’s Map of Lincolnshire Mapmaker(s)_Olfert DapperBlome published the first new series of county maps since Speed. In the straightened financial environment of post Restoration London he had to reply on innovative funding sources: he was one of the first publishers of illustrated books to rely heavily on subscriptions. Subscribers to the Britannia were entitled to have their armorial bearings (Blome began his career as a heraldic painter) engraved on a map of their choice. Condition & Materials

and reissued them under their own imprint

’ covering eastern Europe and the Ottoman world

Survey of India

corners renewed

The earliest versions of this map advertised the Franco-British Exhibition which closed at the end of October 1908

and that they spent ‘some time’ in each of the places they describe

while others contain the same Hullmandel frontispiece as this one

Parallel Greek and Latin text

and published in the ‘Atlas Universel’

and several large-scale county maps including Surrey and Middlesex

but not duplicated in volume 3 where it is also called for

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