A fine seventeenth century map of Devon by Philip Lea from an edition of Christopher Saxton’s atlas circa 1693. Philip Lea flourished 1666-1700 as 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. These he acquired sometime around 1689, but from who is unknown. The fate of some of the plates is unclear, but two – Devon and Northumberland – never reappear suggesting that they might have been lost in the Great Fire of London in 1666. This plate engraved by Francis Lamb was the replacement which made its first appearance in the earlier 1689 edition by Philip Lea surviving in just three known examples. Here the map is found in its second state with the addition of roads, crosses, crowns and a mitre. Batten & Bennett (2008) no. 19 state 2; Skelton (1970) pp. 175 & 179.