Old Map of Wales 1645 by Jean Blaeu - Cardiff, Swansea, Pembrokeshire decorative vintage Florida cartography and hand-drawn embellishments of the

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Old Map of Wales 1645 by Jean Blaeu - Cardiff, Swansea, Pembrokeshire decorative vintage Florida cartography and hand-drawn embellishments of theThis vividly coloured map of Wales was produced in 1645 by Jean (Joan) Blaeu, one of the most celebrated cartographers of the Dutch Golden Age, working from his renowned workshop in Amsterdam. It originally appeared in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, one of the most ambitious atlas projects of the seventeenth century. True to the conventions of the time, the map is titled in Latin "Wallia Principatus Vulgo Wales" reflecting the old Latin