Theatrum Imperii Magnae Britanniae; exactam regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae et insularum adiacentium geographiam ob oculos proponens: una cum comitatibus, centurijs, urbibus et primarijs comitatuum oppidis, intra regnum. Angliae, divisis et descriptis
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Title: Theatrum Imperii Magnae Britanniae; exactam regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae et insularum adiacentium geographiam ob oculos proponens: una cum comitatibus, centurijs, urbibus et primarijs comitatuum oppidis, intra regnum. Angliae, divisis et descriptis
Other titles: Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 8 fol.
Creator(s): Speed, John (1552?-1629)
Additional creator(s): Holland, Philemon (1552-1637) (Other); Camden, William (1551-1623) (Other); Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612) (Other)
Related people: Holland, Philemon; Camden, William; Hondius, Jodocus
Publisher: excusum [T. Snodham] apud Ioann Sudbury et Georg: Humble. And are to be solde by Iohn Sudbury and Georg Humble
Publication city: Imprinted at London
Date(s): Anno... 1616
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [16], 146, [i.e. 280], [12] p
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/n4m33psh
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299413
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004025509705181
Description
Translated from John Speed's "The theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine" the text of which is largely taken from William Camden's Britannica.
The maps are more or less unchanged from the edition of 1611, but printed with a Latin text throughout, doubtless for use on the Continent. According to Chubb this Latin edition is extremely rare and it was not until 1918 that the British Museum obtained a copy. It was printed by Thomas Snodham--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 19.
Translated by Philemon Holland; maps engraved chiefly by Jodocus Hondius.
Illustrations: 67 double page maps of British counties. Engraved title page and dedicatory leaves. Maps are included in signature collation but not in pagination.
Indexed in: STC(2) 23044; Chubb XXIVa.
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