[London:] Roger Rea, 1651 [but c.1662-1665].
UNCOMMON SURVIVAL OF THE REA BROTHER'S PUBLICATION OF SPEED'S WORLD MAP. The map is principally based on William Grent's world map of 1625 and on Jodocus Hondius's world map of 1617, and was first published in Speed's 'A Prospect of the most Famous Parts of the World' (London, 1627). The engraver may have been Abraham Goos, who engraved other maps in Speed's atlas.
Early hand-coloured engraved twin-hemisphere map of the world, state 3 (Rea imprint erased in the plate but just legible), decorative borders incorporating polar celestial hemispheres, medallion portraits of the first four circumnavigators (Magellan, Drake, Cavendish and Van Noort), allegorical figures of the four elements, and diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses (tiny chip to right-hand edge), 39.8 x 52.6cm.
Early hand-coloured engraved twin-hemisphere map of the world, state 3 (Rea imprint erased in the plate but just legible), decorative borders incorporating polar celestial hemispheres, medallion portraits of the first four circumnavigators (Magellan, Drake, Cavendish and Van Noort), allegorical figures of the four elements, and diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses (tiny chip to right-hand edge), 39.8 x 52.6cm.
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