Bertius’ Miniature Map of Dithmarschen Date of Publication_1651 Blackheath

Blackheath

Thus detailed map of London’s cartage boundaries and depots is undated but probably published shortly after the grouping of the ‘big four’ companies that owned and operated the railway lines

58 x 53 cm

engraved by John Dower

Vignettes including Antwerp cathedral and monuments on the plains of Waterloo were engraved by James Baylis Allen

Bertius’ Miniature Map of Dithmarschen Date of Publication_1651 BlackheathThus miniature map of Dithmarschen in Holstein, flanked by the Eider and the Elbe isfrom the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls