The Counties of Britain

Author: John Speed
Edition: New Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1857936124

The Counties of Britain: A Tudor Atlas

This is a new edition of an atlas published in Britain in 1611 under the title "The Theatre of Great Britaine". Download The Counties of Britain: A Tudor Atlas from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The cartographer John Speed had been preparing the individual maps since 1596 and they were issued individually before being collected to form "The Theatre" which was intended as the topographical section of Speed's "The History of Great Britaine". When this was completed, it became the earliest published atlas of the British Isles. It was the first to show all the counties of Britain as well as towns, villages and boundaries as they were at the end of the reign of Elizabeth I and contains the first known maps of many English towns and is embellished with a wealth of heraldic decoration, illustrations of battles, antiquities and royal Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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The Counties of Britain education books for free. The cartographer John Speed had been preparing the individual maps since 1596 and they were issued individually before being collected to form "The Theatre" which was intended as the topographical section of Speed's "The History of Great Britaine" It was the first to show all the counties of Britain as well as towns, villages and boundaries as they were at the end of the reign of Elizabeth I and contains the first known maps of many English towns and is embellished with a wealth of heraldic decoration, illustrations of battles, antiquities and royal

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