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![SPEED, John [Derbyshire] Darbieshire](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/11763_1H.jpg?x45784)
[Derbyshire] Darbieshire
described 1610.
London,
Performed by John Speede, and are to be sold in popes head Alley by Iohn Sudbury and G. Humble,
[1627].
Engraved map with hand colouring.
380 by 510mm. (15 by 20 inches).
11763
notes:
A beautifully coloured map of Derbyshire, with insets of the city of Derby and the springs at Buxton.
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 Humb...
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 Humb...
bibliography:
Chubb XXV.
