A highly decorative map with insets of the cities of Gloucester and Bristol with accompanying descriptions of each. Scale of ‘myles’ in the bottom left corner with dividers. Above, battle scenes showing the conflict between King Canute and the Saxons, and the confrontation of King Edward the 4 ...

Dimensions (W x H): 51.5 x 38 / 20½ x 15

Speed’s decorative map of Norfolk has two insets; Norwich at upper right and a battle scene at top left. A magnificent Royal Arms to the left of the title, seven coats of arms on right hand edge, scale at lower centre.

Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38 / 20 x 15

A fine example of this edition. Inset map of Ipswich. Although Speed assembled much of his material from the earlier works of Saxton, Norden and others, a considerable part of the up-to-date information especially relating to the inset town plans depicted was first hand.

Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 39 / 20 x 15½

A very attractive map of Sussex with inset of Ipswich enclosed in an elegant border. On the right of this, is a pictorial reference to Bodicia, Queen of the Iceni who occupied the area today known as East Anglia. On the left stands a Roman General. Numerous coats of arms of the Dukes and Earles ...

Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38 / 20 x 15

A typical finely engraved and detailed map by this renowned English cartographer

Dimensions (W x H): 40.5 x 51.7 / 16 x 20½

A beautiful map of the county showing the different hundreds in outline colour. Title at top left.

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 40 / 19½ x 15½

An atrractive print of a Portuguese noble woman on a palanquin, with her retinue. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description ...

Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10

A highly decorative map with title cartouche showing a sea monster, cherubs, a noble lady and a soldier riding Pegasus. Above the scale is a scene showing an erupting Mount Vesuvius , cherubs and a coat of arms

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 57 / 19½ x 22½

From Colen Campbell's "Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect" Vitruvius Britannicus is one of the great eighteenth-century English architectural works. It illustrates, in a way, the social revolution that occured in the first half of the 18th century under the governance of Robert ...

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 25 / 19½ x 10

From Colen Campbell's "Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect" Vitruvius Britannicus is one of the great eighteenth-century English architectural works. It illustrates, in a way, the social revolution that occured in the first half of the 18th century under the governance of Robert ...

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 25 / 19½ x 10

From Colen Campbell's "Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect" Vitruvius Britannicus is one of the great eighteenth-century English architectural works. It illustrates, in a way, the social revolution that occured in the first half of the 18th century under the governance of Robert ...

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 25 / 19½ x 10

From Colen Campbell's "Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect" Vitruvius Britannicus is one of the great eighteenth-century English architectural works. It illustrates, in a way, the social revolution that occured in the first half of the 18th century under the governance of Robert ...

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 25 / 19½ x 10

An attractive map with lists of nobles, towns etc. A small inset of the Orkney Isles.

Dimensions (W x H): 46 x 34.5 / 18 x 14