A beautiful map of Buckinghamshire from Speed’s Theatre. Inset plans of the market towns of Buckingham and Redding, the latter being a strange choice given that it lies in the county of Berkshire - an indication that the other market towns in Buckinghamshire were not large or prosperous. ...

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38 / 19½ x 15

Speed drew on the work of John Norden for his map of Essex. His inset plan of Colchester ‘reveals a town of some prosperity with its castle, churches, dwellings and former religious houses, somewhat uncomfortably straddling a circle of walls of Roman origin’. (Nigel Nicolson: A Tudor Atlas by ...

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

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

This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...

Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29.5 / 14 x 11½

Dimensions (W x H): 81 x 61 / 32 x 24