11th Sep, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST
Bill, John
Five maps, being: Buckinghamshire; Barkeshire; Notinghamshire; Hartfordshire; and Essex. 1626. Three mounted, others loose, English text on verso..
Although copied from Camden's Britannia after Saxton (in a similar manner to Pieter van den Keere), these small maps differ in two main ways. The first is size: they are greatly reduced, leading to a crowded appearance. The second and more important is in adding latitude and longitude (with the Azores forming the Prime Meridian). This makes them the first county maps to feature latitude and longitude. The maps are scarce as there was only one edition of the work, thought by Peter J. Radford to number only 200 copies, and as such are rarer than the Saxton and van den Keere versions they drew from.
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