Blaeu (Willem J.), Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae tabula, published Amsterdam, circa 1630, hand coloured carte-a-figures map with vertical margins of costumed figures and six oval vignettes of the principal cities along the upper horizontal margin, trimmed with slight loss to vertical strapwork margins, skillfully extended and replaced in facsimile, 460 x 545 mm, no text to verso R. W. Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477 - 1650, no. 411. A re-issue of Jodocus Hondius's 1625 plate, who in turn had copied a Visscher prototype from a few years earlier. The only alteration to the plate seems to be the replacement of the Hondius imprint with that of Willem Blaeu. Somewhat anachronistically even the protrait of James I (who died in 1625) remains in the upper left corner. Uncommon. (1)
Blaeu (Willem J.), Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae tabula, published Amsterdam, circa 1630, hand coloured carte-a-figures map with vertical margins of costumed figures and six oval vignettes of the principal cities along the upper horizontal margin, trimmed with slight loss to vertical strapwork margins, skillfully extended and replaced in facsimile, 460 x 545 mm, no text to verso R. W. Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477 - 1650, no. 411. A re-issue of Jodocus Hondius's 1625 plate, who in turn had copied a Visscher prototype from a few years earlier. The only alteration to the plate seems to be the replacement of the Hondius imprint with that of Willem Blaeu. Somewhat anachronistically even the protrait of James I (who died in 1625) remains in the upper left corner. Uncommon. (1)
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