AN ANTIQUE MAP, "Europe (Evrop)," JOHN SPEED, CARTOGRAPHER, 1626-1676, hand-colored engraving on paper, Abraham Goos (1589-1643), engraver, published for merchants Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswell in 1676, the upper banner with eight bird's eye views of London, Paris, Rome, Constantinople, Venice, Prague, Amsterdam and Lisbon, the map flanked by ten figures dressed in period 17th-century regional attire for the English, Venetian, German, Polish, Hungarian, Spanish, French Belgian, Bohemian, and Greek cultures, the map showing a detailed view of Stuart period Great Britain, a partial view of Greenland and the North African coast, the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea is called "The Euxine Sea," and the misspelled Anatolian peninsula acknowledges the unified Ottoman territory, titled also "The Lesser Asia." Plate: 15 3/4" x 20 1/2"

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