Original Antique Map

INSULAE ALBION et HIBERNIAE

Cum minoribus adjacentibus

by John Seller

Published London 1694 in Seller's Anglia Contracta

An original copper engraved miniature antique map of The British Isles enhanced with later outline hand colouring.

The ancient tribes are marked and Scotland is orientated to the right. The mythical island of Thule appears north of the Orkney Islands.

This is the rather scarce original John Seller map which is not be confused with the much more common later editions by Francis Grose.

Fine condition other than minor blemishes, free of repairs or restoration, central fold as issued.

Approx. 5.5" x 4.5" (140mm x 120mm) map area only, with good margins beyond. 

John Seller (c1630 - 1697) was a London mapmaker and dealer in scientific instruments. His crowning achievement in the map world was the "Anglia Contracta"  first published in 1694 with its maps of England & Wales reduced and simplified from the famous John Speed maps and published as a small atlas. The maps were used again in "Camden's Brittania Abridged", published in 1701. Francis Grose used them yet again in his "Antiquities of England & Wales" published in various editions from 1773 to 1787.

A GENUINE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAP GUARANTEED OVER 300 YEARS OLD FROM LINDISFARNE PRINTS

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