6 Cornells Danckerts, 'Italiae, Sardiniae, Corsicae et confinum Regionum' ... (Imprint) 'Amstelodami Aput Cornells Danckerts 1640.' 410 x 560mm.
With an elongated view of Rome, smaller town views of Venice, Genoa, Naples and Florence, and pairs of costumed figures. I have not yet traced another copy among the separate maps of Italy in the British Library or R.G.S. nor does any similar map seem to be listed by Koeman when describing the maps of Cornelis Danckerts and his descendants.

7 Petrus Plancius, 'Italiae, Illirici, Sardiniae, Corsicae, Et Confinum Regionum Nova Et Exacta Descriptio, Petro Plancio auctorc ... Paules de la Houve excud.' 390 x 540mm.
This may be a later version of one of Plancius' earlier maps of Italy, to which an oval portrait of Pope Paul V (1605-1621) has been added. Paul de la Houve was an obscure Parisian publisher who is known to have published plans of Florence and Messina in 1601 and a world map after Plancius at about the same time. The British Library has only a later stale of the map of Italy, with the imprint of John Garrett, c.1670. [six blank pages, including a scrap of loose paper found in the atlas at this stage bearing these handwritten words: 'Nick Loinfirth Tailor & Straw Bonnet Maker. Coleshill. Girls Mary Keen aged 12 years or thereabouts. Premium 6 Guineas – Parents none.']

8 John Speed, 'France...' 400 x 515mm.

9 Anon, 'A Mapp of France Newly Revised 1647.' 395 x 475mm. This map appears to be a re-worked copy of Plancius' map of France of 1592. The ornate cartouche has been replaced by a simpler title frame above a table of text describing France and concluding with a somewhat derogatory view of Frenchmen as a whole: '... Generally the men are prompt of witt, curious, unstedfast, devoid of Novallty, enimys to quiet peace given much to pleasure and lust the Nobillity Magnanimus and Martiall.' The British Library has a re-drawn version of Plancius original map with the imprint of Peter Stent but it is not the same plate as the map described here.
[four blank pages]

10 John Speed. The Invasions of England and Ireland...' 380 x 510mm.
Speed's famous Invasions map. See the author's comments on the derivation of this map in Map Collectors' Series Nos. 95 and 97 (items 239 and 397). [two blank pages]

11 John Speed, 'Surrey...' 385 x 520mm.
From Speed's Theatre first published in 1612. This map (and items 12, 14, 15. 16 and 17) bears the imprint of the first edition but the maps are in their second state with the insertion of British tribal names and other corrections which were made after 1614. None of the maps has text on the reverse.

12 John Speed. 'Midle-Sex...' 385 x 505mm.

13 Rombout Van Den Hoeye, 'Londinium Celeberrimum Angliae Emporium' [Imprint] 'Gedruckt t'Amsterd, bÿ Rombout van den Hoeÿe.' 400 x 505mm.
A fine birds-eye view of London, taken from the south looking over the Thames, London Bridge and the City. Beneath the engraving are three different sets of laudatory verses, in Latin, Dutch and French, and a key to forty-three buildings which are numbered on the view. Van den Hoeÿe's view is attributed to c.1640, perhaps based on that drawn by Matthaus Merian and published in Franekfurt in 1638. See I. Scouloudi, Panoramic Views of London 1600 – 1666, London, 1953, pp. 37-38.
[two blank pages]

14 John Speed. 'Oxfordshire...' 485 x 525mm.
[three blank pages on the reverse of one of which is a brief manuscript note describing Wiltona ... Hortus. ... a reference to the plan of Wilton House gardens found among the loose maps and listed under item 86.]

15 John Speed,'Essex...' 380 x 510mm.

16 John Speed, 'Hartfordshire...' 380 x 510mm.

17 John Speed,'Buckingham...' 380 x 505mm.

18 Christopher Saxton, 'Norfolciae... Cornelius Hogius sculpsit Ano Dni 1642.' 335 x 490mm.
This map (and items 22 and 23) is from the William Web edition of Saxton's atlas published during the Civil War in 1645. The date 1642 replaces the original date of 1579 on the Norfolk map and 1578 on the other two Saxton maps.
[nine blank pages]

19 Richard Clampe, 'A Description of the Siedge of Newark upon Trent ... begun ye 6th of March 1645 and ended ye 8th of May 1646.' [Imprints] 'London Printed and sould by P Stent at the Cronne in Giltspur street without Newgate.' 'Peter Louett fecit' 'Described by Richard Clamp Ingenier...' 470 x 430mm.
Another link with the Civil War is provided by this lively plan of the siege of Newark by Royalist forces. The town is shown in detail, with fortification, redoubts and troops' quarters in the surrounding countryside. A foot soldier and four mounted soldiers are depicted in the lower left-hand corner, of which three are named: Coll. Gen. Pointz, Coll. Rosseter, and His Excellency the Earle of Levan Gen, of the Scotch Army. Newark Public Library possesses a largo vellum drawing of the same siege but no information is available about similar engravings.
[five blank pages]

20 John Speed. 'Wales.' 380 x 5 10mm.
State 1.

21 Pieter van den Keere, 'Cambriae Typus...' 350 x 495mm.
Keere's map of Wales, after Humphrey Lhuyd, first published in the Mercator-Hondius atlas of 1607.

22 Christopher Saxton 'Glamorga ... An° Dni 1642' 330 x 485mm.

23 Christopher Saxton, 'Radnor Breknok Cardigan et Caermarden ... 1642.' 370 x 470mm. [one blank page]

24 John Speed. The Kingdome of Ireland...' [Imprint] 'Performed by Iohn Speede and are to be sold in Popes head alley by William Humble ... 1651.' 380 x 510mm.
Maps from William Humble's 1651 edition of Speed's Theatre are uncommon. See R.A. Skelton, County Atlases of the British Isles, page 94.

25 Wenzel Hollar, The North-Part of England and The South-Part of Scotland.' 385 x 515mm.
One of the six maps from the 'Quarter-master's Map,' a set published by Thomas Jennet in 1644. This map is stuck onto one blank page rather than being bound directly into the atlas.

26 Anon, 'The Kingdom of Scotland.' 390 x 495mm.
Lacking imprint or author's name, but based on Speed with some variations in place names. I have located another copy in the British Library (Maps C.7.d.7) bound up with their divided copy of Saxton's large map of England and Wales of 1583, as reprinted in the 1640's.

27 Jodocus Hondius, 'Germania' [Imprint concludes] 1607 ... I. Hondius.' 415 x 560mm.
With sixteen border town plans and a portrait of the Emperor Rudolf H. One of the earliest maps to include town plans or views, pre-dating Blaeu's map of Germany of 1612. State 2. See Prof. Dr. K. Stopp, 'Maps of Germany with Town Views.' Map Collectors' Series no. 35. [one blank page]

28 Claes Janszoon Visscher, 'Palatinatus Rheni ... 1621' [Imprint] '... per Nicolaum Joannis Piscatorem Amsterodami.' 445 x 550mm.
With views of castles and towns, and costumed figures. One of a number of interesting maps with decorative borders produced by Claes (Nicolaus) Visscher the elder under his patronym N.J. Piscator. Note Visscher's map of Prussia bound in the atlas (item 32) and thirteen other loose maps by Visscher in this collection. His map of the Palatinate is to be found in the British Library (Maps C.3.c.9): in a 1623 Mercator-Hondius atlas with added maps by Visscher and others. [inserted loose into the atlas at this point is a printed broadside sheet titled 'Nomenclature Omnium Qui Synodo Interfuerent' and listing those attending a protestant synod. The imprint is 'Amstelodami Apud Nieolaum Joannis Visscher. 1639,' a date contemporaneous with that of the Visscher world map, item 121.
[three blank pages]

29 John Speed, '... eY XVII Provinces of Low Germanie...' 410 x 530mm.
[two blank pages]

30 John Speed, The Kingdome of Denmarke...' 395 x 510mm.

31 Gerard Mercator, 'Svecia Et Norvegia cum confiniis' [Imprint] 'Per Gcrardum Mercatorem Cum privilegio.' 360 x 475mm.
First published in Mercator's Atlas. Part III. 1595.

32 Claes Janszoon Visscher, 'Tabula Prussiac ... denuo edita per Nicolaum Iohannidem Piscatorem' [Imprints] 'A Goos sculpsit' 'Anno 1656.' 445 x 535mm.
C.J. Visscher's map of Prussia first appeared in 1630. Like others by Visscher senior it was re-issued by his son Nicolaus after the death of his father in 1652: in this case with the added date of 1656. It is the latest dated map to appear in the bound atlas.

33 John Speed, 'A New Mape of Tartary...' 395 x 595mm.

34 John Speed, 'the Kingdome of China...' 395 x 510mm.

35 Willem Lodewijcksz. 'Nova Tabula Insularum Iavae, Sumatrae, Borneonis ... descripta a G.M.A.L.' [Imprints] 'Cornelius Nickolai excudit' 'Baptista a Doetechum sculp.' 385 x 545mm.
With detailed panels of life and travel in the East Indies. Lodewijcksz accompanied Cornells Houtman's expedition to the East Indies in 1595-97 and published his Historie van Indien in 1598. See R.A. Skelton, Explorers ' Maps. London, 1958, pp. 147-151.

36 John Speed, The Kingdome of Persia...' 395 x 510mm.