Old Map of Suffolk in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Ipswich, Woodbridge, Bury St Edmunds Size:70x100 cm - UNFRAMED beyond its aesthetic charms

beyond its aesthetic charms

tall pines primed for lumber

and maritime expansions along the Atlantic

This chart is a fascinating artifact from an era when mythology played an integral role in understanding the cosmos

Blaeu had inherited his father Willem's publishing house and its stock of English plates

Old Map of Suffolk in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Ipswich, Woodbridge, Bury St Edmunds Size:70x100 cm - UNFRAMED beyond its aesthetic charmsDrawn to accompany Samuel Lewis's celebrated Topographical Dictionary of England, this map of Suffolk dates from 1844 and captures the county in fine, hand coloured detail during the years before the railways and industry transformed rural England. Ipswich, the county town on the River Orwell, sits at the heart of the sheet, while Bury St Edmunds, Woodbridge, Sudbury and Lowestoft, England's most easterly town, are all marked along with the smaller