Hertfordshire Maps

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£140 Pieter Keere c.1646 Ref: 3066xg
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Size guide - reference image
12x8 cm

Hartforde | Shire
This series of miniature county maps, based on the survey and maps of Chjristopher Saxton, were engraved by Pieter van den Keere (1571-c.1646), a Flemish protestant refugee who came to London in about 1584. They were possibly intended to accompany similar miniature atlases, mainly engraved by Keere, published in Holland at the end of the 16th century. The plates first appeared, possibly as proof copies, as a collection of 44 maps in volumes without title page and with manuscript text c.1605 and then in Guilielmi Camdeni, viri clarissimi Britannia… by Willem Jansson Blaeu (using the name Guilielmus Jansonius) in 1617. By 1619 the plates had come into the possession of George Humble, then publisher of John Speed's county maps, who changed the Latin titles to English and prepared additional plates for individual counties (Keere had grouped together some counties copying Saxton). He marketed the publication as a Miniature Speed atlas presumably in an attempt to capitalise on the commercial success of John Speed's publication. The maps have no association with John Speed other than being based on the same surveys and, for these later issues by sharing the same publishers, but the misnomer has continued to the present day. There were further issues by George Humble, Roger Rea, and finally, in 1676 by Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell.
This example, with Anglicised title, plate number 19 and catchwords in the text setting verso, is from the 1646 or 1662 edition.
The text verso shows through a little but otherwise in very good condition with fine hand colour.
Hodson Printed Maps of Hertfordshire ref. 5(iii).

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