1673 Blome Antique Map Islands of Great Britain - Shetlands, Man, Wight, Channel Indonesia Since the Portuguese and Spanish

Since the Portuguese and Spanish monarchies had been unified under the king of Spain in 1580 (following the vacancy of the Portuguese throne

His early experience in preparing plans of great houses and gardens for the nobility led him to take up large-scale surveying for which he developed a distinctive and effective style involving new ways of indicating land use and hill contours

000 troy oz (205 lbs or 93 kg) of gold

Alexander Dalrymple and others of the Royal Society still believed that a massive southern continent should exist

1673 Blome Antique Map Islands of Great Britain - Shetlands, Man, Wight, Channel Indonesia Since the Portuguese and SpanishTitle : A Mapp of the Isles of Wight, Jarsey, Garnsey, Sarke, Man, Orcadies and Shetland by Ric Blome by his Matys. Command Ref #: 17013 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Size: 15in x 12 1 2in (380mm x 320mm) Date : 1673 Description: This original hand coloured, copper plate engraved antique map of the Islands of Great Britain Shetlands, Man, Wight, Orkenys, Jersey, Guernsey & Sark (Channel Islands) was published by Richard Blome in the 1673 edition of