Clive A. Burden LTD. Rare Maps, Antique Atlases, Books and Decorative Prints

The Mapping of North America

Mr. Philip D. Burden​
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‘The small English county map plates engraved by Pieter van den Keere in about 1605 were used by Willem Blaeu for his edition of Camden’s Britannia in 1617 with the addition of two slightly larger folding maps: those of the British Isles and Yorkshire. The plates then came into the possession of the London publisher George Humble who added further maps and reprinted them under the name of John Speed for the first of a popular series of ‘miniature Speed’ atlases’ (Shirley, of the first Humble edition). Burden (2007) ‘The Origins of the ‘miniature’ Speed atlas’ in ‘Mappae Antiquae Liber Amicorum Günter Schilder’; Shirley (1991) 395; Shirley BL T.Kee 1d; Skelton 17.
HUMBLE, George

The Kingdome of England

London, 1627
85 x 125 mm., in good condition, light even toning, light tape residue, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 7714

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