Cambridgeshire map 17th century engraving by Kip after Saxton

1637

To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Pieter van den Keere (1571 - circa 1646) after John Speed (1551 or 1552 - 1629) Map of Cambridgeshire Engraving 8 x 12 cm A beautifully coloured map of Cambridgeshire, with an antique description of the county to the reverse. The map, along with many others, was published in Speed's atlas, 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', first published in 1611. This particular miniature edition of the 'Theatre' was published in miniature by George Humble in 1627, entitled 'England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged With ye Historic Relation of things worthy memory from a farr larger Voulume. Done by John Speed.’ Speed's original map was likely engraved for this edition by Peter van den Keere. van den Keere's maps soon came to be known as "Miniature Speeds". John Speed was an English cartographer, chronologer and historian. The son of a citizen and Merchant Taylor in London, he rose from his family occupation to accept the task of drawing together and revising the histories, topographies and maps of the Kingdoms of Great Britain as an exposition of the union of their monarchies in the person of King James I and VI. He accomplished this with remarkable success, with the support and assistance of the leading antiquarian scholars of his generation. He drew upon and improved the shire maps of Christopher Saxton, John Norden and others, being the first to incorporate the hundred-boundaries into them, and he was the surveyor and originator of many of the town or city plans inset within them. His work helped to define early modern concepts of British national identity. His Biblical genealogies were also formally associated with the first edition of the King James Bible...

To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Sutton Nichols (1668 - 1729) Map of Cambridgeshire Engraving 43 x 36 cm Signe...

To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Sutton Nichols (1668 - 1729) Map of Cambridgeshire Engraving 43 x 36 cm Signed in plate lower left. A beautifully coloured 18th century map engraving of Cambridgeshire. The map was produced by Robert Morden for publication in Edward Gibson's 1695 translation of William Camden's Britannia, a topographical and historical survey of Great Britain and Ireland produced to "restore antiquity to Britaine, and Britain to his antiquity" - a most noble aim. William Camden (1551 - 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as the author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Annales, the first detailed historical account of the Queen...

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