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Cartographer: Benedetto Bordone
Title: : Tauola Secondo Tolomeo
Date: 1534 Size: 6 x 9 inches
Published: Venice
Description: Great Britain. Black and white woodcut. Text and Map on Verso.
Map Ref: GB1036

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Cartographer: Martin Waldseemuller
Title: : [Albionis Insvia Britani]
Date: 1541 Size: 18 x 13 inches
Published: Strassburg
Description: Great Britain. Early black and white woodcut after Ptolemy.
Map Ref: GB1201

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Cartographer: Girolamo Ruscelli
Title: : Anglia et Hibernia Nova
Date: 1561 Size: 10 x 7 inches
Published: Venice
Description: Great Britain. Early black and white engraving.
Map Ref: GB1319

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Cartographer: George Lily
Title: : Britannia
Date: 1562 Size: 14 x 20 inches
Published: Venice
Description: RARE early "modern" map of Great Britain published by Bertelli and probably engraved by Paolo Forlani [ Shirley 70]
Map Ref: GB255

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Cartographer: Sebastian Munster
Title: : Das Under Buch: Beschzeibung Engellande and Schottlandes
Date: c. 1578 Size: 7 x 11 inches
Published: Basle
Description: Great Britain. Early black and white woodcut.
Map Ref: GB1067

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Cartographer: Abraham Ortelius
Title: : Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, sive Britannicar: Insvlarvm Descriptio
Date: c. 1590 Size: 20 x 14 inches
Published: Antwerp
Description: Great Britain. Cartouche. Original Colour.
Map Ref: GB1104

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Cartographer: Sebastian Munster
Title: : Engellande / mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottlande / so vor zeiten Albion und Britannia haben geheissen
Date: c. 1590 Size: 14 x 12 inches
Published: Basle
Description: British Isles. Black and white woodcut.
Map Ref: GB1055

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Cartographer: Tomaso Porcacchi
Title: : Descrittione Dell' Isola
Date: 1604 Size: 6 x 10 inches
Published: Venice
Description: Great Britain. Early map orientated East to West embellished with sea monsters. Coloured.
Map Ref: GB1452

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Cartographer: Petrus Bertius
Title: : Descriptio Insularum Britannicarum
Date: 1616 Size: 5 x 4 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Early miniature map of Great Britain. Coloured.
Map Ref: GB1570

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Cartographer: Petrus Bertius
Title: : Descriptio Britanniae Magnae
Date: 1616 Size: 5 x 4 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Early coloured miniature map of Great Britain with an east west orientation. Coloured.
Map Ref: GB1607

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Cartographer: John Speed
Title: : The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland
Date: 1627 Size: 20 x 15 inches
Published: London
Description: Great Britain. Celebrated and beautiful map of the United Kingdom with insets of London and Edinburgh. Coloured.
Map Ref: GB1455

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Cartographer: Henricus Hondius
Title: : Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae Tabula
Date: 1631 Size: 20 x 15 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Hand-coloured engraved map. Splendid decorative map of Great Britain enlivened with a variety of vignettes.
Map Ref: GB1577

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Cartographer: William Hole
Title: : Britannia
Date: 1637 Size: 7 x 11 inches
Published: London
Description: A hand-coloured decorative title page with a map of Great Britain at its centre.
Map Ref: GB1580

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Cartographer: Matthaus Merian
Title: : Magnae Brittaniaa et Hiberniae
Date: c. 1640 Size: 14 x 11 inches
Published: Basle
Description: Decorative early map of the British Isles embellished with compass rose, ornate cartouche, ships and coat of arms. Coloured.
Map Ref: GB1626

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Cartographer: Willem & Jan Blaeu
Title: : Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae Tabvla
Date: c. 1640 Size: 20 x 15 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Great Britain. Inset of Orkneys. Embellished with ships and sea monsters. Original colour.
Map Ref: GB1520

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Cartographer: Jan Blaeu
Title: : Britannia
Date: c. 1650 Size: 21 x 17 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: The Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy with panels depicting the coversion of the Anglo-Saxon Kings, in original colour.
Map Ref: GB1344

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