THE COUNTY PALATINE OF CHESTER WITH ITS HUNDREDS BY RIC BLOME
£185
Attractive and scarce copper engraved map of Cheshire with its hundreds.
Published in Richard Blome's Britannia in 1673.
The map features an ornate, scrolled title cartouche, and a garlanded cartouche dedicating the map to Thomas Cholmondeley.
Bottom left there is a key to the Cheshire's settlements and to the county's hundreds.
Good hand colour
Very good condition
code : M4714
Cartographer : Richard Blome
Date : 1673 London
Size : 26*33 cms
availability : Available
Price : £185
Richard Blome (1641-1705) was an English publisher and bookseller who flourished from about 1670 to 1705. He published two series of English county maps. The large series appeared in Blome's Britannia, or a Geographical Description of the Kingdomes of England, Scotland and Ireland, with each map measuring approximately 300 x 250mm. The smaller series, with the maps approximately 240 x 180mm, were published in Blome's Speed's Maps Epitomiz'd: or the Maps of the Counties of England.
Blome also issued a world atlas, the Geographical Description of the Four Parts of the World, in 1670, which was re-issued as the Cosmography and Geography, in 1682 and 1693. The maps from this atlas were Anglicized copies of Nicolas Sanson's work. Blome also issued a number of Bible maps, usually after Visscher.
