Suthsexia Vernacule Sussex

Exceptional example of this decorative map of Sussex. Large margins. Dutch text on verso. Has the coat of arms of King Charles I on the left and the old Plantagenet coat of arms on the right (first used by Richard the Lionheart), as well as 4 coats of arms of local noblemen in between. The map first appeared in Joan Blaeu’s 1645 atlas of England. Like most maps in the atlas it was copied from one in John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611-1612). Blaeu's atlas was both published seperately and added as an appendix to his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and then to his Atlas Maior . In the present second state, it appeared in these atlases from 1646 to 1667.

Fine condition