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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...
A prospect of the most famous parts of the world... Together with the provinces, counties, and shires, contained in that large theater of Great Brittaines empire
Speed, John (1552?-1629); Speed, John (1552?-1629)
1646-1651
Second title-page: The theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine... by Iohn Speed. Imprinted at London anno ... 1650. Are to be sold by George Humble ... [etc.]". "A new and accurat [sic] map of the w...
Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland : containing a whole sheet map of England; a whole sheet map of Scotland; a whole sheet map of Ireland, and... county maps ... [etc.]
Lodge, John map engraver
[1795]
No title-page; catalogued from label on cover. Contains reprints of maps which had originally appeared in the Political Magazine from 1782-1790. They were all engraved by John Lodge, whose name appe...
England delineated, or, A geographical description of every county in England and Wales : with a concise account of its most important products, natural and artificial : for the use of young persons : with outline maps of all the counties
Aikin, John (1747-1822)
1795
Maps in outline, showing only the town and rivers, and are without scales, borders, or any other information. Preface dated 1788, and signed: John Aikin. Includes index.
A new and complete abridgment or selection of the most interesting and important subjects in The antiquities of England and Wales : being a complete collection of beautiful views of the most remarkable buildings and ancient ruins drawn on the spot. To each view will be added an historical letter-press account and description of its situation, when and by whom built, with every interesting circumstance relating thereto. Collected from the best authorities
Grose, Francis (1731?-1791); Kitchin, Thomas (1718-1784); Conder, Thomas
1798
With the exception of the map of Yorkshire, which is by T. Conder, the county maps are by T. Kitchin and originally appeared in The London Magazine from 1747 to 1760.--Whitaker The Harold Whitaker Col...
A prospect of the most famous parts of the world : Viz. Asia...Africa ... Europe ... America ... Together with all the provinces, counties, and shires, contained in that large Theater of Great Britaines empire
Speed, John (1552?-1629); Speed, John (1552?-1629)
1662
The 1676 ed. has title: The theater of the empire of Great Britain... Together with a prospect of the most famous parts of the world. Second title-page: The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine.....
The theatre of the empire of Great-Britain : presenting an exact geography of the kingdom of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the isles adjoyning: as also the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-towns within the kingdom of England and principality of Wales; with a chronology of the civil-wars in England, Wales and Ireland. Together with A prospect of the most famous parts of the world
Speed, John (1552?-1629)
1676
Added engraved title-page. Text on the reverse of each map. Maps are ornamented with the arms of the country and of the nobility, and have border illustrations of figures in national costumes and ...
England fully described in a compleat sett of mapps of ye countys of England and Wales, with their islands, containing in all 58 mapps
Speed, John (1552?-1629); Overton, Henry (fl. 1706-1764); Nicholls, Sutton
[1714]
This work is a combination issue of the Overton collection and the Speed atlas. The Brotherton Library copy contains the Speed title-page (with differently worded title) and 32 (should be 33, Middlese...
Guilielmi Camdeni, viri clarissimi Britannia, sive Florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, & insularum adjacentium ex intima antiquitate descriptio. In epitomen contracta a regnero Vitellio Zirizaeo, & tabulis chorographicis illustrata
Camden, William (1551-1623); Keere, Pieter van den (1571-1624)
1617
An abridged version of Camden's Britannia with Latin text, and, so far as the maps of England and Wales are concerned, illustrated by reduced copies of Saxton's maps, engraved by Peter Keer, and also ...
Atlas minor Gerardi Mercatoris à I. Hondio plurimis ancis tabulis auctus atque illustratus
Mercator, Gerhard (1512-1594); Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612)
1621
Colophon: Arnhemii, ex officina Ioannis Ianssonii, Bibliopolæ. Anno M.DC.XX.
A chorographicall description of all the tracts, rivers, mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britain : with intermixture of the most remarkeable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarities, pleasures, and commodities of the same : diuided into two bookes, the latter containing twelue songs, neuer before imprinted. Digested into a poem
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631); Selden, John (1584-1654)
1622
Thirty allegorical picture maps, illustrating the thirty songs by Michael Drayton, named after counties but drawn to include complete rivers and ignoting the county boundaries entirely. Eighteen of th...
The abridgment of Camden's Britannia with the maps of the seuerall shires of England and Wales
Camden, William (1551-1623)
1626
Engraved title-page. Fifty-one small maps of the counties of England and Wales, which are chiefly remarkable as being the earliest individual county maps to show latitude and longitude.