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John Speed's "Map of Wiltshire" 1662 edition. #1467582

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John Speed's  Map of Wiltshire  1662 edition. #1467582
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John Speed's "Map of Wiltshire" 1662 edition..
Copperplate engraving. Fine hand colouring. Overall size : 50.5x 38cm. Great collector piece.</em></td>
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John Speed's "Map of Wiltshire" 1662 edition..
Copperplate engraving. Fine hand colouring. Overall size : 50.5x 38cm. Plan of Salisbury at top left with coats of arms below. Vignette of Stonehenge at top right with brief description below. Scale of miles at bottom right. English text to verso. Centre fold as issued. Slight age toning in margins. Published by Roger Rea, approximately 1662 edition.
John Speed's map of Wiltshire is probably the most famous of mapping errors in British cartographic history.
Just west of Salisbury there appears a town named 'Quare". This is in fact the town of North Burcombe which did not appear on any map until 1775. Quare is the old English word for query, and clearly the engraver of Speed's early map mistook the word in the manuscript draught to be the name of the town and included it on the plates. The mistake was continued by at least a dozen later cartographers, an indication of the reliance of map makers of the period on each other's efforts.
They are from a serious collector, who has collected for years. He is moving and retiring, and selling out a lot of items that he does not get to enjoy much anymore. He has been a map collector for years, and we have offers on just about all his maps. I talked him into letting me show some of these, and if you can better what he already has, then you may end with some of them. It will probably be a one time deal, as I only have access of them for the next 30 days, after that, well they will be sold to ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Great</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1662</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:US</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:John Speed</td></tr>




<tr><td>Title:John Speed's "Map of Wiltshire" 1662 edition.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Map of Wiltshire" 1662 edition.</td></tr>

<tr><td>Type:Original maps</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:Canoga Park, Ca</td></tr>
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