A very rare English seventeenth century map of Hungary published by Philip Lea. The map displays much of south eastern Europe and is decorated with an ornate title cartouche and upper left a dedication to George Prince of Denmark and Norway. The map is engraved by Richard Palmer (fl.1673-89) whose imprint may be found lower right. Across the top of the map are a series of nine inset views of ‘Buda-Pest’, Nagykanizsa, Nagyvarad, Nograd, Temesvar, Belgrad, Szigetvar, Gyula and Szekesfehervar.

Published as broadsheet map and in his atlas “Atlas containing ye Best Maps of the several parts of the World collected by Phil: Lea who selleth all sorts of Mathematical Books and Instruments.”. Philip Lea (fl. 1683-1700) was a cartographer, globe and instrument maker and map seller. His atlases were rarely uniform usually being made to order and his editions of Saxton’s atlas are similarly varying in content although built around his stock of the original plates. This map was published to mark the Battle of Buda in the same year fought between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire for control of the city of Buda. Szantai, Lea 1; Worms & Bayntun-Williams (2011) p. 511 illustrating this map.