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164663961London. c.1646. An excellent map by John Speed of the English Islands of: Farne and Holy Island off the Northumbrian coast; and the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey. Each quatered map has a compass rose dividers and a mileage scale. Size: 430 x 550 mm. Copperplate engraving. Hand coloured. Good condition. Some minor staining to the centrefold and surrounding area. unknown
162621928<p>London: Are to be sold in pops-head Alley by G. Humble 1626 but 1627-1632. 405 by 515mm. 16 by 20.25 inches. Speed's map of China Double-page engraved map with hand-colour. A map of China also encompassing Korea and some of the islands of Japan from the first atlas compiled and published by an Englishman Speed's 'Prospect'. Along the top of the map is a decorative border with bird's-eye views of the islands of Macao after de Bry and Quinzay modern-day Hangzhou as well as dubiously accurate vignettes showing 'ye Manner of their Travelling by land' and 'the Manner of their Execution'. Along the sides of the map are depicted figures including one of the earliest European depictions of a Japanese soldier. Korea is shown as a long island and Japan is drawn after Ortelius and Teixeira. The Great Wall of China "built by ye King of China against ye breaking in of ye Tartars" separates China from the 'Desert Lop' which divides it from Russia. Here small diabolical figures are illustrated accompanied by the warning that "men are thought to be seduced by wonderfull illusions and divilish spitting". Accompanying text in English 'The Description of the Kingdome of China' is printed on the reverse. John Speed 1552-1629 was the outstanding cartographer of his age. By trade a merchant tailor but by proclivity a historian it was the patronage of Sir Fulke Greville poet and statesman that allowed him to pursue this interest in earnest. His 'Theatre of Great Britain' first published in 1611 or 1612 was the first large-scale printed atlas of the British Isles. The 'Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World' from which the present work is drawn appeared in 1627 bound with the 'Theatre' and is the first world atlas compiled by an Englishman to be published in England. Engraved in Amsterdam many of the maps are anglicized versions of works by Dutch makers in distinctive carte-à-figure style featuring borders with figures in local costume and city views. Chubb XXV; Shirley Atlases T.SPE-2a.</p> Are to be sold in pops-head Alley by G. Humble,
167621924<p>London: are to be sold by Tho: Bassett in Fleet Street and Ric: Chiswell in St. Pauls Churchyard 1676. 400 by 520mm. 15.75 by 20.5 inches. Speed's map of Denmark Double-page engraved map. A map of 'the Kingdome of Denmarke' comprising modern-day Denmark and parts of Sweden and Germany from the 1676 edition of the first atlas compiled and published by an Englishman Speed's 'Prospect'. The upper border contains views of major cities including Copenhagen and Hamburg with the arms of Christian King of Denmark at the centre and portrait medallions of Christian IV and of his son and heir Frederick on either side. Along each side are illustrated figures wearing regional costumes. Accompanying text in English 'The Description of the Kingdom of Denmark' is printed on the reverse. John Speed 1552-1629 was the outstanding cartographer of his age. By trade a merchant tailor but by proclivity a historian it was the patronage of Sir Fulke Greville poet and statesman that allowed him to pursue this interest in earnest. His 'Theatre of Great Britain' first published in 1611 or 1612 was the first large-scale printed atlas of the British Isles. The 'Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World' from which the present work is drawn appeared in 1627 bound with the 'Theatre' and is the first world atlas compiled by an Englishman to be published in England. Engraved in Amsterdam many of the maps are anglicized versions of works by Dutch makers in distinctive carte-à-figure style featuring borders with figures in local costume and city views. This map is from the 1676 edition of the 'Prospect' published by Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell. While not as rare as the earlier publications this edition is perhaps the most important given that it is the first to include the nine new maps: among them Virginia and Maryland Barbados and Russia. It is also the last time that the 'Prospect' was printed as an atlas. Shirley Atlases T.SPE-2f.</p> are to be sold by Tho: Bassett in Fleet Street and Ric: Chiswell in St. Pauls Churchyard,
64286London: Are to be sold in pops-head Ally by G. humble 1627-32. Original copper engraved map sheet 40.5 x 52 cm; plate: 39.5 x 51 cm with later hand-colouring of China also showing Korea and Japan. Vignette views of Macao and Quinzay and scenes showing the Chinese manner of 'Travelling by Land' and 'Execution' in the upper border. Eight illustrations showing different types of oriental costume four in the left border and four in the right. English text 'Description of the Kingdome of China' to verso. Watermark to western side. Excellent condition. [London: Are to be sold in pops-head Ally by G. humble 1627-32]. unknown
161038006London: John Sudbury and George Humble 1610-27. In very good to excellent condition. 38.5 x 51 cm 15.25 x 20 inches. Original antique copper engraving hand colored in outline and wash very likely old colored. Engraved by Jodocus Hondius. Published 1627 English text edition. Very decorative map of the County of the kingdom of Ireland. At the top left is the title cartouche on which two putti are sitting holding a harp. Below are six engraved costume prints depicting three couples: Gentleman / Gentlewoman of Ireland Civil Irish woman / Civil Irish Man Wild Irish man / Wild Irish woman. In the top right corner we the coat of arms with the inscription 'God and my right' in French language. In the Irish Sea next to the compass rose and mileage scale a sailing ship and a sea monsters are engraved. Below the imprint with the publisher John Sudbury and George Humble and the privileg dated 1610. An early edition of this rare map of Ireland with strong engraved waves in the sea. John Speed 1551 oder 1552 – 28. Juli 1629 war ein englischer Kartograf Chronologe und Historiker mit Wurzeln in Cheshire. Als Sohn eines Bürgers und Schneiders in London verließ er den Beruf seiner Familie um die Aufgabe anzunehmen die Geschichte Topografie und Karten der Königreiche Großbritanniens zusammenzustellen und zu überarbeiten um die Vereinigung ihrer Monarchien in der Person von König James I. und VI. darzustellen. Er erreichte dies mit bemerkenswertem Erfolg mit der Unterstützung und Hilfe der führenden Altertumsforscher seiner Generation. Er stützte sich auf die Shire-Karten von Christopher Saxton John Norden und anderen und verbesserte sie indem er als Erster die Hundertgrenzen in sie einfügte und er war der Landvermesser und Urheber vieler der darin enthaltenen Stadtpläne. Seine Arbeit trug dazu bei frühneuzeitliche Konzepte der britischen Nationalidentität zu definieren. Seine biblischen Genealogien wurden auch offiziell mit der Erstausgabe der King-James-Bibel in Verbindung gebracht. Er gehört zu den berühmtesten englischen Kartografen. Wikipedia.A minor marginal light staining in very good to excellent condition. 2nd English edition 1616 P. 255 John Sudbury and George Humble unknown
16767572London: Basset & Chiswell 1676. Copper engraving 38.5 x 51.5 cms recent hand-colour light crease in the lower right hand corner but generally a very good example; English text on verso. Cartographically Speed follows Mercator but his is one of the most distinctive and decorative early maps of Scotland. The portraits in the borders originally represented James VI and I and his family including a young Prince Charles. The royal family was burnished from the copper plate during the Interregnum and replaced with the commoners seen here: a Scotch man and woman and a Highland man and woman notable as early depictions of tartan. John Speed 1552-1629 is unquestionably the most significant British map-maker of the seventeenth-century. A brief note from Granger's Bibliographical History of England 1779 contains most of the information we have about Speed's life: "John Speed who was bred a Tailor was by the generosity of Sir Fulk Grevil his patron set free from a manual employment and enabled to pursue his studies to which he was strongly inclined by the bent of his genius. The fruits of them were his Theatre of Great Britain containing an entire set of maps of the counties drawn by himself his History of Great Britain richly adorned with seals coins & medals from the Cotton collection; and his Genealogies of Scripture first bound up with the Bible in 1611 which was the first edition of the present English translation. His maps were very justly esteemed & his History of Great Britain was in its kind incomparably more complete than all the histories of his predecessors put together ." 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 continental publishing houses - although much of the engraving of the copper plates was performed in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius. Speed was an antiquary and intended that his atlas should be read in conjunction with his history of Britain. He managed to include a great deal of historical detail on his 'modern' county maps and the inset town plans some surveyed by himself together comprise the first collection of town plans of the British Isles all in all making the Theatre a highly decorative as well as a useful volume. It was a great success and there were editions printed throughout the seventeenth-century. Map Basset & Chiswell unknown
164623399London: William Humble 1646. Other. In excellent condition. 393 by 520mm 15½ by 20½ inches. 393 by 520mm 15½ by 20½ inches. Copper engraving uncolored as published. William Humble unknown
164623402London: William Humble 1646. Other. In excellent condition. 387 by 512mm 15¼ by 20¼ inches. 387 by 512mm 15¼ by 20¼ inches. Copper engraving uncolored as published. William Humble unknown
49670London: John Sudbury & George Humble William Humble 1610 1646. Original engraved map 39x 51 cm. Uncoloured. Insets of Galway. Good dark impression on thick paper torn at centre-fold with loss some staining to outer edges. London: John Sudbury & George Humble [William Humble] 1610 [1646] unknown
2006Q-0312325487St. Martin's Press 2006-08-22. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! St. Martin's Press hardcover
2007Q-0312325495St. Martin's Griffin 2007-07-24. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! St. Martin's Griffin paperback
2007Q-0312325517St. Martin's Press 2007-09-04. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! St. Martin's Press hardcover
164623417London: William Humble 1646. Other. In excellent condition. 382 by 506mm 15 by 20 inches. 382 by 506mm 15 by 20 inches. Copper engraving uncolored as published. William Humble unknown
164623414London: William Humble 1646. Other. In excellent condition. 383 by 509mm 15 by 20 inches. 383 by 509mm 15 by 20 inches. Copper engraving uncolored as published. William Humble unknown
200045232Waddesdon: Map Collector Publications 2000. First edition. Large oblong 8vo. 172 pp. Publisher's green cloth gilt lettered to the spine dust jacket. Colour reproductions of the original plans throughout. Sunning to the jacket at slightly unusual angles else very good. Waddesdon: Map Collector Publications unknown
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186532612Washington 1865. 16pp disbound. Front wrapper only light waterstain running through outer edges of text. Good.<br /> <br /> Speed was a Kentuckian appointed as Lincoln's Attorney General in 1864. Though a Border State moderate he quickly became an all-out Union man with the outbreak of war. Here he opines that trial of the alleged presidential assassins should occur by military commission rather than civil courts: the law of war as part of the law of nations has implicitly been adopted in the Constitution. <br /> "When lawless wretches become so impudent and powerful as not to be controlled and governed by the ordinary tribunals of a country armies are called out and the laws of war invoked." The laws of war do not require different treatment of "secret active enemies" and "open active enemies" who would be tried by military tribunal. Under these circumstances the alleged assassins may be tried by military court without a jury. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Monaghan 739. II Harv. Law Cat. 634. 165 Eberstadt 471. Not in LCP. unknown
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16769394London 1676. No Binding. Near Fine. 14 3/4 x 19 ¼ inches. Fine hand color; wear to bottom of centerfold else fine condition. A very attractive near-mint example. Speed's handsomely engraved work is one of the earliest English maps of the area and one of the first to demarcate the borders of colonial Virginia and Maryland. Just three years before the publication of Speed's map Augustine Herrman had conducted the first thorough surveys of Maryland at the behest of Lord Baltimore. Speed's was one of the first maps to adopt this groundbreaking cartography. However in general outline Speed still followed the prototype of Captain John Smith who conducted the first European survey of Chesapeake Bay. Speed's map "is the last major derivative of the Smith map and it is unique as an example of the transition from one basic prototype map to another. The delineation of the land area follows Smith while the toponymic prototype was the Herrman map of 1673." Verner in Tooley Mapping of America p.170 A particularly important feature derived from Herrman by Speed is the boundary line indicated by a double row of trees between Virginia and Maryland on the Eastern Shore. English text on the verso contains extensive descriptions of Virginia and Maryland. unknown
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