Old Map of Surrey in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Guildford, Croydon, Kingston, Richmond andean urban heritage Study the interplay of train

Study the interplay of train lines

Coastal detail along the English Channel and North Sea is notably more refined than the treatment of Ireland's interior

In the background

tallying mills

it resonates with all who recognize the Great Lakes as a vibrant crossroads of American life

Old Map of Surrey in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Guildford, Croydon, Kingston, Richmond andean urban heritage Study the interplay of trainThis vivid county map of Surrey was engraved and published in 1665 by Joan Blaeu, the celebrated Amsterdam mapmaker whose workshop produced some of the finest atlases of the seventeenth century. It appeared in his monumental Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, one of the great cartographic achievements of the Dutch Golden Age, and captures Surrey as it stood in the middle of the seventeenth century, decades before the county's rural parishes