Blaeu’s Map of Cardiganshire Date of Publication_1661 Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk

Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk often worked in partnership

the most northerly of the main islands of Japan

Edges untrimmed

this chart relies on earlier British and Danish surveys

Blaeu’s Map of Cardiganshire Date of Publication_1661 Petrus Schenk and Gerard ValkCeretica sive Cardiganensis Comitatus; Anglis Cardigan Shire Blaeu 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 of these great map houses