Lot 371
John Speed
Books, Maps, Photographs & Manuscripts
Auction: 12 July 2005 at 13:00 BST
£1,016
Description
The Kingdome of Scotland, hand-coloured engraved map, first issue with inset portraits of King James, Henry Prince of Wales, Queen Anne and Charles Duke of York and imprint of John Sudbury and George Humbell, 1610, inset map of Orkney, 39 x 51cm., framed and glazed
Footnote
Note: From John Speed's The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611), the first atlas of the British Isles. The map is based on Mercator's map of 1595 and engraved in Amsterdam (but printed in London) by Jodocus Hondius.