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atlases2
geography, medieval1

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Great Britain4
Great Britaine3
Gret Britain2
Virginia1
Middlesex (England)1
America1

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Keere, Pieter Van Den7
Keere, Pieter Van Den (1571-1624)7
Camden, William (1551-1623)4
Speed, John (1552?-1629)3
Camden, William3
Mercator, Gerhard (1512-1594)2
Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612)2
Hondius, Jodocus2
Norden, John (1548-1625?)1

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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 ...

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England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland described and abridged : with ye historic relation of things worthy memory from a farr larger voulume done by Iohn Speed

Speed, John (1552?-1629); Keere, Pieter van den (1571-1624); Camden, William (1551-1623)

Anno 1627

Signatures: A-Z⁸. Printer's name from STC. An abridgement of: Speed, John. The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine, the text of which is mainly based on: Camden, William. Britannia. Contai...

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England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland described and abridged : with ye historic relation of things worthy memory from a farr larger voulume done by Iohn Speed

Speed, John (1552?-1629); Keere, Pieter van den (1571-1624); Camden, William (1551-1623)

Anno 1627 [i.e.1646?]

An abridgement of: Speed, John. The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine, the text of which is mainly based on: Camden, William. Britannia. The third edition to use the title-page dated 1627. The...

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Atlas sive Cosmographicæ meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura

Mercator, Gerhard (1512-1594); Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612); Keere, Pieter van den (1571-1624)

1630

Text in French. A reduced version of Mercator's maps of 1595 but entirely different from those in the Atlas Minor. Most of the maps were engraved by Pieter van den Keere. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Wh...

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Atlas Minor : das ist: Eine kurtze jedoch gründliche Beschreibung der gantzen Weldt. In zwey Theile abgetheilet, Das Erste begriefft Gross Britannien... [etc.]

Mercator, Gerhard (1512-1594); Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612); Keere, Pieter van den (1571-1624)

1651

Similar to the edition of 1631 but containing, in addition, eight little known English county maps, viz.:- of Cumberland, Devon, Yorkshire, Norfolk, ambridge, Oxford, Hereford and Essex, as well as a ...

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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 i
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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...

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England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland described and abridged : with ye historic relation of things worthy memory from a farr larger voulume done by Iohn Speed

Speed, John (1552?-1629); Keere, Pieter van den (1571-1624); Camden, William (1551-1623)

Anno 1662

An abridgement of: Speed, John. The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine, the text of which is mainly based on: Camden, William. Britannia. In the latter part some of the maps show that they have...

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