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![SPEED, John [Connaught] The Province of Connaugh](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/11811_1H.jpg?x10978)
[Connaught] The Province of Connaugh
with the citie of Galwaye described.
London,
Performet by John Speed and are to be sold in Popes Head Alley against the Exchange by John Sudbury and George Humble,
[1627].
Engraved map with hand colouring.
396 by 510mm. (15.5 by 20 inches).
11811
notes:
A map of Connaught, with an inset map of Galway.
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.
