SPEED, John (1552-1629).] A New and Accurat Map of the World . [London:] Roger Rea, dated 1651 [but c.1662-1665]. Hand-coloured engraved twin-hemisphere map of the world, state 3 (Rea imprint erased in the plate but just legible), decorative borders incorporating polar celestial hemispheres, medallion portraits of the first four circumnavigators (Magellan, Drake, Cavendish and Van Noort), allegorical figures of the four elements, and diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses (tiny chip to right-hand edge), 398 x 526mm, framed and glazed. UNCOMMON SURVIVAL OF THE REA BROTHER'S PUBLICATION OF SPEED'S WORLD MAP. The map is principally based on William Grent's world map of 1625 and on Jodocus Hondius's world map of 1617, and was first published in Speed's A Prospect of the most Famous Parts of the World (London, 1627). The engraver may have been Abraham Goos, who engraved other maps in Speed's atlas. Shirley 317.
SPEED, John (1552-1629).] A New and Accurat Map of the World . [London:] Roger Rea, dated 1651 [but c.1662-1665]. Hand-coloured engraved twin-hemisphere map of the world, state 3 (Rea imprint erased in the plate but just legible), decorative borders incorporating polar celestial hemispheres, medallion portraits of the first four circumnavigators (Magellan, Drake, Cavendish and Van Noort), allegorical figures of the four elements, and diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses (tiny chip to right-hand edge), 398 x 526mm, framed and glazed. UNCOMMON SURVIVAL OF THE REA BROTHER'S PUBLICATION OF SPEED'S WORLD MAP. The map is principally based on William Grent's world map of 1625 and on Jodocus Hondius's world map of 1617, and was first published in Speed's A Prospect of the most Famous Parts of the World (London, 1627). The engraver may have been Abraham Goos, who engraved other maps in Speed's atlas. Shirley 317. Sold with four other John Speed maps, Italia newly augmented , The Kingdome of England , The Kingdome of Scotland , and Surrey (all London, 1626 or later); and one other. All except one framed and glazed. (6)
SPEED, John (1552-1629).] A New and Accurat Map of the World . [London:] Roger Rea, dated 1651 [but c.1662-1665]. Hand-coloured engraved twin-hemisphere map of the world, state 3 (Rea imprint erased in the plate but just legible), decorative borders incorporating polar celestial hemispheres, medallion portraits of the first four circumnavigators (Magellan, Drake, Cavendish and Van Noort), allegorical figures of the four elements, and diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses (tiny chip to right-hand edge), 398 x 526mm, framed and glazed. UNCOMMON SURVIVAL OF THE REA BROTHER'S PUBLICATION OF SPEED'S WORLD MAP. The map is principally based on William Grent's world map of 1625 and on Jodocus Hondius's world map of 1617, and was first published in Speed's A Prospect of the most Famous Parts of the World (London, 1627). The engraver may have been Abraham Goos, who engraved other maps in Speed's atlas. Shirley 317.
SPEED, John (1552-1629).] A New and Accurat Map of the World . [London:] Roger Rea, dated 1651 [but c.1662-1665]. Hand-coloured engraved twin-hemisphere map of the world, state 3 (Rea imprint erased in the plate but just legible), decorative borders incorporating polar celestial hemispheres, medallion portraits of the first four circumnavigators (Magellan, Drake, Cavendish and Van Noort), allegorical figures of the four elements, and diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses (tiny chip to right-hand edge), 398 x 526mm, framed and glazed. UNCOMMON SURVIVAL OF THE REA BROTHER'S PUBLICATION OF SPEED'S WORLD MAP. The map is principally based on William Grent's world map of 1625 and on Jodocus Hondius's world map of 1617, and was first published in Speed's A Prospect of the most Famous Parts of the World (London, 1627). The engraver may have been Abraham Goos, who engraved other maps in Speed's atlas. Shirley 317. Sold with four other John Speed maps, Italia newly augmented , The Kingdome of England , The Kingdome of Scotland , and Surrey (all London, 1626 or later); and one other. All except one framed and glazed. (6)
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