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[An atlas of the counties of England and Wales [cartographic material]
Saxton, Christopher (1542-)
[1579]
Consists of 45 coloured maps, variously dated from 1574 to 1579, which represent the earliest survey of England and Wales. There is one general map of England and Wales; 24 are maps of single counties...
Speculum Britanniae. The first parte an historicall, & chorographicall discription of Middlesex. Wherin are also alphabeticallie sett downe, the names of the cyties, townes, parishes hamletes, howses of name &c. W.th direction spedelie to finde anie place desired in the mappe & the distance betwene place and place without compasses. Cum priuilegio
Norden, John (1548-1625?); Keere, Pieter van den (1571-1624)
[1593]
This is the first part of an ambitious project to provide historical and general guides to every county, accompanied by an improved map of the same. The attempt however failed through lack of adequate...
Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicæ enarrationis, libri octo
Ptolemy; Pirckheimer, Willibald (1470-1530); Servetus, Michael (1511?-1553)
1541
A second edition of the Ptolemy of Servetus, the first being that of 1535. The maps are from the same blocks as in the editions of Laurentius Fries in 1522 and W. Pirckheimer in 1525, both of which we...
Cosmographiae vniuersalis lib. VI. in quibus iuxta certioris fidei scriptores, sine omni cuiuscunq[ue] molestia, uel læsione, describuntur, omnium habitabilis orbis partium situs propriæq[ue] dotes. regionum topographicæ picturæ
Münster, Sebastian (1489-1552)
mense Martio, Anno Salutis M.D.LXXII. [Mar. 1572]
Contains 25 double-page maps similar to those designed by Munster for inclusion in his edition of Ptolemy's Geography of 1540. These maps were probably engraved on wood, but the letterings are apparen...
Theatrum orbis terrarum
Ortelius, Abraham (1527-1598); Llwyd, Humphrey (1527-1568); Ptolemy; Ortelius, Abraham (1527-1598); Ortelius, Abraham (1527-1598); Hogenberg, Franz (1590); Arsenius, Ambrosius; Arsenius, Ferdinand; Wierix, Jan (1549-1618)
[1595]
Imprint from t.p. of Nomenclator. Includes: "Parergon, sive, Veteris geograpiae [sic] aliquot tabulae", "Nomenclator Ptolemaicus", "De Mona druidum insula... epistola ... Humfredi Lhuyd". Register a...