Title:
Map of the county of Essex by Joannes Blaeu
Level: Category
Printed Maps
Level: Fonds
COUNTY MAPS
Level: Series
Joannes Blaeu
Scope and Content:
Essexia Comitatus
‘Milliaria Anglica quorum quator constituent unum Germanicum’
[Scale of] ‘6’ [miles = 62mm.] [1:155,000]
Size: 420 x 525mm.

Copied from Speed’s map, 1610, with smaller and more numerous symbols for hills and woods. Title on a lace-fringed mantle, and scale in a cartouche round which are three cherubs holding a measuring chain. The Royal Arms enclosed in a Garter are above those of the Earls of Essex, and at the end of the latter is one blank shield. In the top right-hand corner is a crowned shield of England, Gules three lions passant gardant or. Two sailing boats and three barges are shown in the North Sea.
Extracted from Blaeu’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus, Vol IV, 1648?, with Dutch text from Camden’s Britannia on the reverse, pp 224 and 223.
North Sea labelled “Oceanus Germanicus, The German Sea”.
No latitude, longitude, grid or compass rose, but Septentrio, Oriens, Meridiens, Occidens around edges. Coloured; hundreds’ edges not coloured.
Dates of Creation:
1648
Extent:
1 item
Admin History:
Atlas Novus was first published in 1645, and had editions: Latin in 1646, 1648 and 1662; French in 1645, 1646, 1648, 1662, 1663 and 1667; German in 1645, 1648 and 1649; Dutch in in 1646, 1648 and 1664; Spanish in 1659 and 1662. From 1662 it was called the Atlas Major, as it had grown from 4 or 5 volumes to 11 volumes (and varied by language).
Custodial History:
Kean collection