Old Map of Somerset in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Bath, Bristol, Weston-super-Mare, Taunton, Yeovil Size:70x100 cm - UNFRAMED first published in 1611 within

first published in 1611 within Speed's celebrated Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine

already a walled town of some standing

and coastlines

tea ceremony

and bustling port towns

Old Map of Somerset in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Bath, Bristol, Weston-super-Mare, Taunton, Yeovil Size:70x100 cm - UNFRAMED first published in 1611 withinThis map of Somerset was produced by the celebrated Amsterdam cartographer Joan Blaeu and published in 1665 as part of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, one of the great atlases to come out of the Blaeu family workshop during the Dutch Golden Age of cartography. Blaeu's maps were prized for their fine engraving and rich hand colouring, produced in Amsterdam using English surveys as their base but presented in a distinctly continental