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John Speed
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English: A new and accurat map of the world drawn according to ye truest descriptions latest discoveries & best observations yt have been made by English or strangers. 1626. [at foot] Are to be sold in Pops-head Alle by Geor: Humble.

Single sheet. Hand coloured engraving with original red ink on the sheet edge. A double hemisphere world map with two celestial hemispheres. The prime meridian and the conjunction of the hemispheres runs through Ferro. In the margins there are diagrams of: the eclipse of the sun and moon; the heavens and elements; a figure to prove the spherical roundness of the sea; personifications of the elements of earth, air, fire and water; and portraits of four navigators - Magellan, Drake, Cavendish and van der Noort. This is a sheet from John Speed's Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World, first published in 1627.

A new and accurat map of the world drawn according to ye truest descriptions latest discoveries & best observations yt have been made by English or strangers. 1626. [at foot] Are to be sold in Pops-head Alle by Geor: Humble.' Front of chart.
Date 1626
date QS:P571,+1626-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions Printed area 39.5 x 52cm, on sheet 41.5 x 55.5cm.
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/540215
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Acquisition Number: NA1970-16N
id number: G201:1/37
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Charts and maps

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