A Mapp of the Estates of the Crowne of Poland, where are the Kingdom of Poland…, 1669

1669 [dated] Sanson (original cartographer) – Richard Blome (publisher): “A Mapp of the Estates of the Crowne of Poland, where are the Kingdom of Poland with its Palatinates the Dutches of Russia Noire Cujavia Mozovia Prussia Lithuania Volhynia Podolia &c…1669,” London, 15.5 x 10.5 inches. The earliest folio-sized map of the region engraved in England. While Speed’s atlas was published earlier, his plates were engraved and printed in Amster- dam. To finance his work, Blome undertook subscribers, in exchange for a promise to add their coat of arms to certain maps. In later editions, if the renewal fee was not paid, Blome added a different subscriber’s coat of arms, leading to multiple images on various editions of the same map. This map’s dedication: “To the Right Worshipful Sr. Richard Otley of Pichford, in Shropsheir Knight.” See the 1680 version.