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| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Speed, John (1552?-1629) | 15 |
| Camden, William (1551-1623) | 13 |
| Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638) | 11 |
| Blaeu, Joan (1596-1673) | 10 |
| Hondius, Jodocus | 10 |
| Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612) | 10 |
| Jansson, Jan (1588-1664) | 8 |
| Mercator, Gerhard (1512-1594) | 8 |
| Camden, William | 7 |
| Keere, Pieter Van Den (1571-1624) | 7 |
[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...
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 ...
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.
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...
The shires of England and Wales
Saxton, Christopher (1542-); Lea, Philip (fl. 1683-1700); Ogilby, John (1600-1676); Seller, John (fl. 1658-1698)
[1693]
As later editions merely showed alterations to the imprints, this is cartographically the final state of Saxton's maps. All the county maps now indicate roads according to Ogilby's survey. Maps which ...
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 ...