Old Map of Essex in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Colchester, Chelmsford, Basildon, Southend, North London Size:18x24 inch - UNFRAMED This artistic map beautifully captures

This artistic map beautifully captures the state’s unique blend of history

Delicate annotations mark significant historical sites and naval routes

Whether you’re decorating a coastal retreat

and wilderness

Old Map of Essex in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Colchester, Chelmsford, Basildon, Southend, North London Size:18x24 inch - UNFRAMED This artistic map beautifully capturesJoan Blaeu inherited the great Amsterdam mapmaking business founded by his father Willem and pushed it to its most spectacular expression in the Atlas Maior, a multi volume world atlas published in several editions through the 1660s that stood as the largest and most lavish atlas ever printed at the time. Its volume devoted to England and Wales reworked the county surveys originally compiled by Christopher Saxton nearly a century earlier, but re