Holy Iland; Garnsey; Farne; Jarsey
[Channel Islands]
London,
Performed by John Speede and are to be sold by Iohn Sudb. and G. Humbell,
[1627].
Engraved map with hand colouring.
380 by 510mm. (15 by 20 inches).
11782
notes:
A beautifully coloured map of the Channel Islands.
John Speed (1552-1629) was the outstanding cartographer of his age. His 'Theatre of Great Britain' was the first atlas of the British Isles: Speed prepared the maps himself about two years before they were published. His maps and books dominated the seventeenth-century English market. The present map is taken from the 1627 English edition published by George Humble. ...
John Speed (1552-1629) was the outstanding cartographer of his age. His 'Theatre of Great Britain' was the first atlas of the British Isles: Speed prepared the maps himself about two years before they were published. His maps and books dominated the seventeenth-century English market. The present map is taken from the 1627 English edition published by George Humble. ...
bibliography:
Chubb XXV.
provenance:
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Ptolemy’s first projection, with the “finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator”
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