Old Map of County Durham in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Darlington, Stockton-on-Tees, Sunderland, Hartlepool, Newcastle cozy cabin animal decor print historic travel memorabilia

historic travel memorabilia

It makes a fitting gift for anyone who has recently moved to Hertfordshire and wants a sense of the county's much older history

outdoor adventurers

Yet this New York City Subway 1950s Map Print transcends mere transit lines

and smaller roads are meticulously drawn

Old Map of County Durham in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Darlington, Stockton-on-Tees, Sunderland, Hartlepool, Newcastle cozy cabin animal decor print historic travel memorabiliaThis map of County Durham was published in 1665 by the Amsterdam cartographer Joan Blaeu as part of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, one of the great atlases to emerge from the Dutch Golden Age of mapmaking. Blaeu's workshop produced maps of a decorative quality rarely matched by English publishers of the period, using earlier English surveys as their base but engraving and hand colouring them in Amsterdam with the ornamental cartouches