![]() We love the idea of having the funds to develop a healthy addiction to antique mapping but if like us this is out of your reach then why not consider our brand-new wall map of Somerset. It has many detailed notes, our favourite being ‘Chadder near Axbridge is noted for excelent Cheese made there, not Inferior to the best Parmesan.’īowen’s maps helped move cartography from mere functional objects to art forms and went on to be published in great quantity. It was part of “The Large English Atlas” and is regarded as one of the finest county maps of the 18 th century. This map was first published in 1749 and is the work of Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin. The fire of 1672 and the passing away of the director gave rise to a complete sale of the stock of the Blaeu House.Ħ. An Improved Map of the County of Somerset - 1749 - Bowen On February 23, 1672, a fire ruined the business. His Atlas Major and the town-books of the Netherlands and of Italy are heralded today as great works that secured the reputation of the Blaeu name for evermore. Born in Amsterdam in 1596 he and his father Willem became the most widely known cartographic publishers of the seventeenth century. This is a beautifully detailed and colourful map by Johan Blaeu. Old County Map of Somersetshire from the Atlas Novus Somersettensis Comitatus - Somerset Shire. We love the bold colour scheme and font used for the title.ĥ. It may also include Dorsetshire and South Wiltshire but we couldn't not include its strong graphic style on our round up. This antique hand-coloured geological map by James Reynolds (1864) is very striking. Its patriotic sentiments, both appealed to and generated the growing sense of nationalism that was coursing through late Tudor / early Stuart society.Ĥ. Dorsetshire, Somersetshire & South Wiltshire - Reynolds - 1864 The work of the Elizabethan antiquarian, William Camden (1551-1623), it was a detailed historical and topographical description of Great Britain. * 'Britannia', first published in 1586, was one of the most popular and influential books of the period. It's a double-page engraved map, hand-coloured with monsters and sailing ships.īeautifully decorative with striking colour sand detail it will cost about £350 today Settlements and notable buildings are also recorded pictorially a small building with a spire represents a village, while more important towns are indicated by groups of building.ģ. Somersettensis Comitatus Vulgo - Saxton & Kip - 1607 or laterīased on Saxon's earlier county map above and engraved by William Kip this map was first published in 1607 in the first edition of William Camden's Britannia* Rather than provide a scientific representation of relative relief these give a general impression of the lie of the land. It is a thing of real beauty and would cost about £3500 today.Ĭhristopher Saxon was the first to survey and draw county maps of the Kingdom and was part of the Thomas Seckford household whose arms is in the lower right corner.ĭuring the reign of Elizabeth I map use became more common, with many government matters referring to increasingly accurate maps with consistent scales and symbols. It is printed using engraving and then hand coloured. This map was published in the first ever English Atlas. These maps are known for their borders, which show local inhabitants in national costume and panoramic vignette views of major cities and towns.Īnother lovely touch is that the atlas copies have a description of life in the region during that time printed on the reverse. This beautiful decorative map by John Speed is one of many highly sough out county maps by the most famous of English Cartographers. Somerset_Shire, Somersetensem, Somersettensis We've perused auction house catalogues, books, and online map collections to give you are favourite antique Somerset maps.
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