Janssonius’ Map of Staffordshire & Shropshire Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 32 cm upper left

upper left

including Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and part of the Oval

first and foremost

also known as the Smyrna Catastrophe

Janssonius’ Map of Staffordshire & Shropshire Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 32 cm upper leftThese maps of Staffordshire and Shropshire are presented on one sheet. Unlike Kip and Hole, Speed and Blaeu who all devoted an entire map sheet to each county Janssonius occasionally depicted adjacent counties together. He may have been influenced in this by the example set by the father of English county cartography, Christopher Saxton. Joannes Janssonius II (1588 1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked on a revised