Hermannides, Rutger: Magna Britannia, sive Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae & adjacentium Insularum Geographico-Historica Descriptio. Amstelodami [Amsterdam], Sumptibus Aegidii Jansonii Valckenier, 1661
Map, 12mo. pp. [xxii], 645, [li] + engraved folding map of Great Britain (after Cluverius?) and 31 engraved folding minature towns plans. A quire of 4 leaves of dedicatory poems from the end of the preliminaries have been misbound in the middle of 2f, in the index. It is also possible that a leaf from the beginning of the preliminaries is wanting, probably a half title or a blank. Some light waterstaining towards the end of the volume. Later vellum, some soiling.
Nearly all of the plans are based on the small inset plans shown on John Speed’s county maps in the Theatre. For many of the towns these are the first individual plans published., Howgego (London) 13.
£1750
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