The theatre of the empire of Great-Britain : presenting an exact geography of the kingdom of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the isles adjoyning : as also the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-towns within the kingdom of England and principality of Wales : with a chronology of the civil-wars in England, Wales and Ireland : together with a prospect of the most famous parts of the world, viz. Asia, Africa, Europe, America : with these empires and kingdoms therein contained, viz. Grecia, Roman-Empire, Germany, Bohemia, France, Belgia, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Poland, Persia, Turkish-Empire, Kingdom of China, Tartaria, Summer-Islands / by John Speed.
Alternate Title(s):
Second book: containing the principality of Wales
Edition:
In this new edition are added, in the theatre of Great-Britain, the principal roads, and their branches leading to the cities and chief towns in England and Wales, with their computed distances, in a new and accurate method. ... In the prospect of the world, rhe Empire of the Great Mogul, with the rest of the East-Indies, Palestine, or the Holy-Land, the Empire of Russia.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for Thomas Basset at the George in Fleet-Street, and Richard Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, MDCLXXVI [1676]
Physical Description:
[16], 126, 5-6, 5-8, [22], 129-146, [14], 56, [12] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations, coats of arms, tables ; 46 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scales differ.
Notes:
BEIN 1976 Folio 108: Imperfect: fourth double l. before p. [127] mutilated.
Exhibition History:
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
Subject Terms:
Great Britain -- Maps -- Early works to 1800. | Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. | America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800. | America -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. | Jones, J. -- Autograph (BEIN 1976 Folio 108) | Glyndebourne -- Bookplate.