A prospect of the most famous parts of the world : Viz. Asia...Africa ... Europe ... America ... Together with all the provinces, counties, and shires, contained in that large Theater of Great Britaines empire
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Type of record: Book
Title: A prospect of the most famous parts of the world : Viz. Asia...Africa ... Europe ... America ... Together with all the provinces, counties, and shires, contained in that large Theater of Great Britaines empire
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 11 fol.
Creator(s): Speed, John (1552?-1629)
Additional creator(s): Speed, John (1552?-1629) (Other)
Related people: Speed, John
Publisher: Printed by M. and S. Simmons, and are to be sold by R. Rea the elder and R. Rea the younger
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1662
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 p.l., 42 leaves, 43-44 p. [5], 5-94, [1], 99-126, [1], 129-132, [1] 135-146, [5] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299434
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004030319705181
Description
The 1676 ed. has title: The theater of the empire of Great Britain... Together with a prospect of the most famous parts of the world.
Second title-page: The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine... by Iohn Speed. Imprinted at London anno ... 1650.
This edition of the Theatre appears to be the rarest, as the greater part of it was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. On each map, Humble's or Sudbury & Humble's imprint has been replaced by that of Roger Rea the Elder and Younger--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 21.
Indexed in: Wing S-4883; Chubb XXVI.
Additional description
Lacking ff. 129-132, and 135-138
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