Speed's Carte à Figure of Italy Printed Area Measurement_19 x 27.5 cm Bellin compiled maps like this

Bellin compiled maps like this one of Japan and Korea for Prévost's Histoire Générale des Voyages

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This map of Norfolk was engraved by Emanuel Bowen for John Owen’s Britannia Depicta

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This map of Middlesex was first published in 1746 to accompany Thomas Read’s English Traveller

Speed's Carte à Figure of Italy Printed Area Measurement_19 x 27.5 cm Bellin compiled maps like thisThis 'carte figure' map of Italy includes eight costume vignettes and six city views around the edges, with the coats of arms of Corsica and Sardinia. John Speed (1552 1629) is unquestionably the most significant English map maker of the seventeenth century. The first edition of Speed's Theatre was published in 1612. It was the first atlas of the British Isles, and the first attempt made by an Englishman to match the achievements of the great