Blome’s Map of Lincolnshire Mapmaker(s)_Olfert Dapper Parallel Greek and Latin text

Parallel Greek and Latin text

and published in the ‘Atlas Universel’

and several large-scale county maps including Surrey and Middlesex

’ covering eastern Europe and the Ottoman world

Blome’s Map of Lincolnshire Mapmaker(s)_Olfert Dapper Parallel Greek and Latin textBlome published the first new series of county maps since Speed. In the straightened financial environment of post Restoration London he had to reply on innovative funding sources: he was one of the first publishers of illustrated books to rely heavily on subscriptions. Subscribers to the Britannia were entitled to have their armorial bearings (Blome began his career as a heraldic painter) engraved on a map of their choice. Condition & Materials