Blaeu’s Camaldolese Hermitage, near Lanzo Torinese Engraver(s)_Sutton Nicholls This was erased and replaced

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

the best account of the continent available in English at the time

with a lucrative Ordnance Survey contract

and features an inset of the Marianas

The plates each incorporate a map

Blaeu’s Camaldolese Hermitage, near Lanzo Torinese Engraver(s)_Sutton Nicholls This was erased and replacedCamaldulensium, 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