Blaeu’s Charterhouse of Pesio, near Cuneo in Piedmont fishing our copy from June 1861

our copy from June 1861 might well have been with Bradshaw’s waiting to be supplied with a fresh timetable when Albert’s death in December made it unnecessary

the government hastily improvised a 'cardboard fleet' (purchasing whatever warships it could on the open market)

Labarre to verso of box label

Many have been removed from their original context over time

Blaeu’s Charterhouse of Pesio, near Cuneo in Piedmont fishing our copy from June 1861Cartusia Vallis Pisii, fundata 1173 This is the Charterhouse of Pesio, a Carthusian foundation near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeus townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reissued (with Blaeus imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 38 x 52 cm, engraved by Juvenal Boetta, black and white, blank verso. References Koeman, Atlantes