Blaeu’s Map of Berkshire Date of Publication_1892 ink stamp confirming corrections to

ink stamp confirming corrections to November 1911

due to demand for cotton from northern textile mills and heavy involvement with the Atlantic slave trade

the bill of an Egyptian Ibis and a Jamaican Hummingbird

printed in black and red

Blaeu’s Map of Berkshire Date of Publication_1892 ink stamp confirming corrections toBlaeu 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