Blaeu’s Camaldolese Hermitage, near Lanzo Torinese Engraver(s)_Sutton Nicholls China Sea – Banka Strait

China Sea – Banka Strait

which he seems to have inherited with the stock of John Bowles

as usual with this map (narrow upper margin

This was erased and replaced by van der Aa’s imprint on a stone tablet

French naval chart of Smyrna

Blaeu’s Camaldolese Hermitage, near Lanzo Torinese Engraver(s)_Sutton Nicholls China Sea – Banka StraitCamaldulensium, nondum omnino absoluta ad Lancei oppidum eremus This is the Camaldolese hermitage near Lanzo Torinese in Piedmont (which is visible on the hillside to the left). Blaeus townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reissued (with Blaeus imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 48 x 56 cm, black and white, upper margin cut