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The history of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans : their originals, manners, habits, warres, coines and seales, with the successions, lines, acts, and issues of the English monarchs from Julius Cæsar, to our Most Gratious Soveraigne King James
Speed, John (1552?-1629)
1650
Engraved title-page. Published as a continuation of his "Theatre of Great Britain." Contains Books 5-10 only; table of contents lists Books 1-10. Numerous errors in paging. Statement of responsi...
Villare Anglicum, or, A view of all the cities, towns, and villages in England : alphabetically composed, so that naming any town or place, you may readily find in what shire, hundred, rape, wapentake, &c., it is in
Spelman, Sir Henry (1564?-1641); Speed, John (1552?-1629)
1678
Principally derived from the tables to the maps prepared by John Speed. Cf. Lowndes, p. 2474. In double columns. Advertisement on p. [461-464].
Historia Anglicana ecclesiastica a primis gentis susceptae fidei incunabulis ad nostra fere tempora deducta, et in quindecim centurias distributa
Harpsfield, Nicholas (1519-1575); Campion, Saint Edmund (1540-1581); Gibbons, Richard (1550?-1632); Speed, John (1552?-1629)
1622
Title in red and black. Printer's device on t.p. Head- and tail-pieces; initials. Side-notes. Frequent errors in paging. "Historia Wicleffiana eiusdem auctoris": pp. [661]-732. "Catalogus ...
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...
Villare Anglicum, or, A view of all the cities, towns, and villages in England : alphabetically composed, so that naming any town or place, you may readily find in what shire, hundred, rape, wapentake, &c., it is in
Spelman, Sir Henry (1564?-1641); Speed, John (1552?-1629)
1678
Principally derived from the tables to the maps prepared by John Speed. Cf. Lowndes, p. 2474. In double columns. Advertisement on p. [461-464].
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...
[Theatre of the empire of Great Britaine]
Speed, John (1552?-1629)
[1650?]
A collection of 33 plates comprising plans of towns in Great Britain and Ireland, most of which are copies of the insets to Speed's maps in the "Theatre". A decorated frontispiece (there is no proper ...
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...
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...
An epitome of Mr. John Speed's Theatre of the empire of Great Britain, and of his Prospect of the most famous parts of the world : in this new edition are added, the descriptions of His Majesties dominions abroad, viz. New England, New York,... Carolina, Florida, ... Virginia, Maryland, ... Jamaica, Barbados, ... as also the empire of the Great Mogol, with the rest of the East Indies, ... the empire of Russia, with their respective descriptions
Speed, John (1552?-1629); Speed, John (1552?-1629); Speed, John (1552?-1629)
1676
In two parts, each with special t.p. Engraved special t.p. for first part reads: England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland described and abridged with ye historic relation of things worthy memory from a ...