A Map of Virginia and Maryland

by J. Speed

Inquire · Offered by Martayan Lan · No longer available

14 3/4 x 19 ¼ inches, Fine hand color; wear to bottom of centerfold, else fine condition. A very attractive, near-mint example. Speed's handsomely engraved work is one of the earliest English maps of the area and one of the first to demarcate the borders of colonial Virginia and Maryland. Just three years before the publication of Speed’s map, Augustine Herrman had conducted the first thorough surveys of Maryland at the behest of Lord Baltimore.

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