Janssonius’ Map of Staffordshire & Shropshire Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 32 cm With the author's presentation inscription

With the author's presentation inscription to a Monsieur Bléton: 'offert en témoignage / de ma sincère affection…'

20 x 27 cm

Tracks of various major navigators are shown

upper left

Janssonius’ Map of Staffordshire & Shropshire Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 32 cm With the author's presentation inscriptionThese maps of Staffordshire and Shropshire are presented on one sheet. Unlike Kip and Hole, Speed and Blaeu who all devoted an entire map sheet to each county Janssonius occasionally depicted adjacent counties together. He may have been influenced in this by the example set by the father of English county cartography, Christopher Saxton. Joannes Janssonius II (1588 1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked on a revised