1645 Monmouthshire, Great Britain

MONMOUTH SHIRE, Joan Blaeu (1645)In 1645, Joan Blaeu (1598-1673) successfully published an atlas of England. Blaeu based this atlas on the `Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine' published by his English colleague John Speed (1552-1629) in 1611. To this atlas belonged a basic map of Monmouthshire.