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SPEED (JOHN) AND WILLEM BLAEU Pictorial title-pages to Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain' and Blaeu's 'Le Théâtre du Monde... Quatriesme partie [Britain]'; and 2 others
7 – 20 June 2024, 12:00 BST
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SPEED (JOHN) AND WILLEM BLAEU
Pictorial title-pages to Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain', 1650, and Blaeu's 'Le Théâtre du Monde... Quatriesme partie [Britain]', P. Rea, 1646, engraved and hand-coloured, Speed trimmed within the platemark and sides reinforced with old paper, Blaeu with margins frayed, folio--ROBERT DE VAUGONDY (DIDIER) Britannicae Insulae in Quibus Albion, sive Britannia Maior, Iuernia, sive Britannia Minor, tum et Orcades, Ebudes, Cassiterides, hand-coloured double-page engraved map after Sanson, title in ornamental cartouche, lower margin trimmed, 495 x 550mm., 1750--[BEST (EDWARD)] Geological Map of the British Isles, hand-coloured lithographed map, damp-staining on verso, dissected and laid on linen, folding into publisher's red buckram, printed title label on upper cover, 685 x 570mm., Edward Stanford, [c.1893] (4)