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John Speed's Map of Buckinghamshire, 1616 browse these categories for related items... Directory: Traditional Collectibles:Ephemera:Maps: Pre 1700: Item # 735920
The Condon Kay Collection Post Office Box 2008 East Hampton, NY 11937 (631) 907-4294 Guest Book $500 |
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| "PART OF BUCKINGHAM BOTH SHYRE, AND SHIRE: TOWNE DESCRIB." Engraved map with accompanying Latin text verso, on off-white, laid, watermarked paper (the watermark of a crest-like cartouche), 15" x 20" (image area), 16 3/8" x 21 3/4" (sheet), uncolored, the central portion of the map incorporating letterpress titling ("Part of Northampton Shire," "Part of Bedford Shyre," "Part of Hartford Shire," "Part of Oxford Shire," "Part of Bark Shyre,"), inset map of Buckingham in the upper left corner of the sheet, inset map of Redding in the upper right corner of the sheet, "Posui Deum Adiutorem Meum" in the center left portion of the sheet above an archway containing arms ("Semper Eadem" in a cartouche below the arms, the lower portion of the archway with crossed swords through a crown bearing the motto "Union"), the "Armes of those Honorable Families which have born ye titles of Buckingha" in the center right portion of the sheet above an archway containing the arms of said titled families ("Walter Gifford Earle," "Richard Stranbowe E.," "Thomas of Wodstoke E.," "Humfr. Stafforde Duke"), a "Scale of Miles" (with compass) at the base of the map center-left, "Anno...1610" and "Performed by John Speed, and are to be sold in Popes head alley by G. Hubell. Cum Privilegio" each just inside the rolled border at the base of the composition. The verso of the sheet consisting of two foliated leaves, numbered "44" (left) and "43" (right), each headed "Lib.1. Buckinghamiensis Comitatus Cap.22.," folio 44 containing an alphabetical index of places ("Tabula Alphabetica omnium Villarum, Fluviorum"), folio 43 elucidating in eight numbered paragraphs what we take to be Buckinghamshire's history in the context of its physical and geographical features, the shoulder notes to the text including "Forma," "Limites," "Dimensio," "Veteres Incolae," "Fictum & Commentitium Miraculum." This sheet is from the 1616 Latin edition of John Speed's "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain." One-inch closed tear to the left edge of the sheet, the tear touching the map's engraved border; half-inch closed tear to the upper left corner of sheet, touching the map's engraved border; 1 1/2" split along the old foldline, lower edge of sheet; the upper outer corner of the sheet has been remargined, a 5/8" x 5/8" roughly square piece replaced from the verso with handmade paper, the repair well clear of the map's engraved border, expertly done, seamless and of some age; small pieces missing along the upper edge of the sheet, including 1 3/8" long x 1/16" wide, 1/4" x 1/8", 1/4" x 1/16", 1/8" x 3/16", 1/8" square, 1/8" square, this last associated with a slightly larger snag to the edge of the sheet; a single pinhole-size hole in the approximate center of the sheet; the sheet with slight surface soiling and much darkening (uniformly so, both recto and verso, except for a 3/8"-wide undarkened vertical strip center of sheet); soft creasing to sheet. Unframed. | ||||||||||
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