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Les isles Britanniques, qui contiennent les Royaumes d'Angleterre, Escosse, et Irlande : distinguiés en leurs principales provinces, subdiviseés en leurs shireries, et comtés
Title
Les isles Britanniques, qui contiennent les Royaumes d'Angleterre, Escosse, et Irlande : distinguiés en leurs principales provinces, subdiviseés en leurs shireries, et comtés / tiré de G. Cambdene, Chr. Saxton, I. Speed, I. Pont. R. Gordon, et de I.B. Boozius par G. Valck.
Publication
Á Amsterdam sur le dam : Chez Gerard Valck, [approximately 1695]
Physical Description
1 map : engraving, hand colored ; 46 x 56 cm, on sheet 51 x 61 cm
Cartographic Detail
Scale approximately 1:2,500,000.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored.
Notes
Date of publication from Shirley.
Includes inset map of the Orkney Islands, Ferro Island, and Hetland and Shetland Islands (17 x 17 cm).
Relief shown pictorially.
Although this map was newly engraved in Amsterdam for Valck, it is based on Jan Jansson's map of the British Isles, first published in 1636 and incorporated in volume four of his Novus atlas, issued from 1646 to 1666.
Selected exhibitions: "The Mapmaker's art : 300 years of British cartography" (Yale Center for British Art, January 17-March 12, 1989).
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
French
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Shirley, R.W. Printed maps of the British Isles, 1650-1750, Valck 1
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Maps - British Isles - 1695.
Maps - Great Britain - 1695.
Early works.
Maps.
Engravings - Hand-colored - 1695.
Also listed under
BAC Folio C 2010 2m Exhibited in: Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989)
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