Speed's Carte à Figure of Italy Printed Area Measurement_19 x 27.5 cm some original outline colour

some original outline colour

1571 giorno de S

This map of Middlesex was first published in 1746 to accompany Thomas Read’s English Traveller

light stain in upper part of the image

Speed's Carte à Figure of Italy Printed Area Measurement_19 x 27.5 cm some original outline colourThis 'carte figure' map of Italy includes eight costume vignettes and six city views around the edges, with the coats of arms of Corsica and Sardinia. John Speed (1552 1629) is unquestionably the most significant English map maker of the seventeenth century. The first edition of Speed's Theatre was published in 1612. It was the first atlas of the British Isles, and the first attempt made by an Englishman to match the achievements of the great