‎Speed‎

‎Speed James‎

‎Billy and Jane explorers / by James Speed ; illustrated from photographs taken by the author. Volume v.2 1924‎

‎2020. Softcover. New. Lang: - eng Vol: - Volume v.2 Pages 176. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1924. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Volume v.2 paperback‎

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‎Speed James‎

‎Billy and Jane explorers / by James Speed ; illustrated from photographs taken by the author. Volume v.2 1924 Full Leather Bound‎

‎2020. Full Leather Bound. New. Antique look with Golden Leaf Printing and embossing with round Spine completely handmade bindingextra customization on request like Color Leather Colored book special gold leaf printing etc. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1924. This book is printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure in old look so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - eng Vol: - Volume v.2 Pages 176. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED. Normal Hardbound Edition is also available on request. Volume v.2 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : SD1111017377012

‎Speed James‎

‎Billy and Jane explorers‎

‎Heath 1924. Hardcover. Good. Good Hardcover. Some cover wear. Text is clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Heath hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : B00086PTA2

‎Speed James b.‎

‎James Speed : a personality 1914 Leather Bound‎

‎2019. Leather Bound. New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back 1914. This book is printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - eng Pages 182. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : LB1111006955077

‎Speed James b.‎

‎James Speed : a personality 1914 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng Pages 182. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1914. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1111006955077

‎Speed James‎

‎James Speed a personality 1914 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng Pages 184. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1914. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1111006408160

‎Speed James His Grandson‎

‎James Speed‎

‎Louisville KY: John P Morton & Co 1914. Has DJ edge wear EMAIL for Pictures. Hard Cover. Good /Good. John P Morton & Co Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : FG 82-23

‎Speed James‎

‎Opinion on the Constitutional Power of the Military to Try and Execute the Assassins of the President 1865‎

‎New. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : A9781164113959 ISBN : 116411395x 9781164113959

‎Speed James‎

‎OPINION ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL POWER OF THE MILITARY TO TRY AND EXECUTE THE ASSASSINS OF THE PRESIDENT‎

‎Washington 1865. 16pp disbound light rubberstamp Good. Speed was a Kentuckian appointed as Lincoln's Attorney General in 1864. Though a Border State moderate he quickly became an all-out Union man with the outbreak of war. Here he opines that trial of the alleged presidential assassins should occur by military commission rather than civil courts: the law of war as part of the law of nations has implicitly been adopted in the Constitution. "When lawless wretches become so impudent and powerful as not to be controlled and governed by the ordinary tribunals of a country armies are called out and the laws of war invoked." The laws of war do not require different treatment of "secret active enemies" and "open active enemies" who would be tried by military tribunal. Under these circumstances the alleged assassins may be tried by military court without a jury. FIRST EDITION. Monaghan 739. II Harv. Law Cat. 634. Not in LCP. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 32612

‎Speed James‎

‎Oration of James Speed upon the inauguration of the bust of Abraham Lincoln at Louisville Ky. February 12 1867 1867 Leather Bound‎

‎2019. Leather Bound. New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back 1867. This book is printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - eng Pages 16. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : LB1111005143189

‎Speed James Speed Joshua F. Joshua Fry Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Ohio Commandery‎

‎Oration of James Speed upon the inauguration of the bust of Abraham Lincoln at Louisville Ky. February 12 1867 : and Address of Hon. James Speed before the Society of the Loyal Legion at Cincinnati May 4 1887 in response to the toast Abraham Lincoln 1867 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng Pages 114. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1867. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1111005143375

‎Speed James‎

‎Oration of James Speed upon the inauguration of the bust of Abraham Lincoln at Louisville Ky. February 12 1867 1867‎

‎2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - eng Pages 32. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1867. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback‎

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‎Speed James b. .‎

‎Ten outdoor men by James Speed. 1929 Leather Bound‎

‎2020. Leather Bound. New. SPECIAL DISCOUNTED PRICE DURING COVID PANDEMIC. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1929. This book is printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - eng Pages 152. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : LB1111017424884

‎Speed James O. Jr.‎

‎The Apostles' Creed : Fresh Water from an Ancient Spring‎

‎Cherokee Publishing Company 1987. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Cherokee Publishing Company hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : G0877971447I5N00 ISBN : 0877971447 9780877971443

‎Speed James O. Jr‎

‎The Apostles' Creed: Fresh Water from an Ancient Spring‎

‎Larlin Corp. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. Larlin Corp unknown‎

Bookseller reference : GRP93618511 ISBN : 0877971447 9780877971443

‎Speed James‎

‎OPINION ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL POWER OF THE MILITARY TO TRY AND EXECUTE THE ASSASSINS OF THE PRESIDENT‎

‎Washington 1865. 16pp disbound light rubberstamp Good.<br/><br/> Speed was a Kentuckian appointed as Lincoln's Attorney General in 1864. Though a Border State moderate he quickly became an all-out Union man with the outbreak of war. Here he opines that trial of the alleged presidential assassins should occur by military commission rather than civil courts: the law of war as part of the law of nations has implicitly been adopted in the Constitution. "When lawless wretches become so impudent and powerful as not to be controlled and governed by the ordinary tribunals of a country armies are called out and the laws of war invoked." The laws of war do not require different treatment of "secret active enemies" and "open active enemies" who would be tried by military tribunal. Under these circumstances the alleged assassins may be tried by military court without a jury. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Monaghan 739. II Harv. Law Cat. 634. Not in LCP. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 32612

‎Speed JF. J. F.‎

‎Background to a Ballet‎

‎Louis Klemantaski. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Undated Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item150grams ISBN: Louis Klemantaski paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 7780352

‎Speed Jimmie‎

‎A Declaration to the Spiritual Soldier‎

‎Spiritual Soldiers Publishing Co. 2012. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Spiritual Soldiers Publishing Co. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : G0979047951I3N10 ISBN : 0979047951 9780979047954

‎Speed Jno. Gilmer Harper's Weekly‎

‎PRINT:"The Tuskegee Plan: Practical Education for the Southern Negro in Alabama".article 7 photos from Harper's Weekly September 14 1895‎

‎NY: Harper's Weekly 1895. 3 1/2 page story with 18 photos demonstrating the "Tuskegee plan" for education Negros in Alabama Image shows only one page of photos. 1st. Unbound. Very Good. Illus. by B/W Photos. 11" x 15.5. Harper's Weekly Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 047350

‎Speed John 1552 1629‎

‎'Cambridgeshire described with the division of the hundreds'‎

‎London: John Sudbury & George Humble 1676. London: John Sudbury & George Humble. Speed John 1552-1629 Single sheet 15 x 20 inches full margins showing the plate mark two repaired tears on bottom margin an inch either side of the crease line condition commensurate with age. An appealing uncolored engraved map of Cambridge stretching the border with Huntingdonshire in the west to Suffolk in the east. There is an expanded plan of the historic university town of Cambridge in the North West. The map was printed as part of Speeds revered atlas 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine'. The map was part of the earliest English attempt at producing an atlas on a grand scale as part of 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain' the work for which Speed is best known. This celebrated Atlas contained the first set of county maps consistently attempting to show the boundaries of territorial divisions and the first truly comprehensive set of English town plans-a notable contribution to British topography. After 15 years assembling the Atlas it was published to immediate success: three new editions and issues appeared during Speed's lifetime and the work remained popular into the eighteenth century. Indeed the maps of this Atlas remain one of the most popular with map collectors around the world. John Speed was born in the Cheshire village of Farndon and from his youth pursued his father's profession of tailoring. He later moved to London to continue this trade though Speed's real passions lay elsewhere namely in the fields of antiquity and cartography. He joined the Society of Antiquaries where his enthusiasm soon attracted the attention of notables such as William Camden and Sir Fulke Greville. In 1596 Greville provided Speed with a full time allowance to write a 'Historie of Great Britaine'. It was during this project that Speed decided to add a cartographic supplement to the work and it was from this that his famous atlas 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine' was born. The individual maps are the best known and among the most sought-after of all county maps. The map of Cambridge was particularly desirable as shown by the fact it was one of the few county maps selected to be printed as individual sheets as well as part of Atlas. The maps themselves were derived from the best and most up- to-date sources available. However Speed also made innovations of his own - introducing town plans such as the one of Cambridge seen on this map. This map is also decorated with two vignettes of scholars of the university as well as the coats of arms of the colleges of Cambridge University and local nobles. Also included is a decorative strap-work title cartouche astride the royal coat of arms surrounded by a lion and unicorn. The overall effect is to produce very decorative attractive and informative map. Description prepared for Arader Galleries by Jack Rogers Eton College Oxford University Geography Undergraduate . London: John Sudbury & George Humble unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 72JR4

‎SPEED John c. 1552 1629‎

‎A Map of New England and New York‎

‎London: Thomas Basset & Richard Chiswell 1676. Copper-engraved map with original outline colour and the title and margins double-ruled in red. An extraordinary copy of Speed's map of New England and New York with magnificent original colour and with the title and margins double-ruled in red indicating a noble English provenance. This highly decorative map is luxuriously embellished with original colour and its title and margins are double ruled in red a magnificent and unique custom generally reserved for special presentation pieces intended for English noble patrons. John Speed the leading London cartographer of the Baroque period devised his interpretation of the Jansson-Visscher sequence of New England and New York maps shortly after the English managed to definitively supplant the Dutch from control of New York and New Jersey both provinces being renamed after British places. The major settlements of Boston New Plymouth Massachusetts New York New Castle Delaware New Haven Stamford Connecticut and Ft. Orange modern Albany are named; however this map predates the founding of Philadelphia in 1682. The outline of coastal New England is based on the work of earlier English cartographers the most prominent being Captain John Smith. Long Island the Hudson Valley New Jersey and the Delaware Basin are based on Dutch seacharts. Speed advanced his portrayal of the head of Chesapeake Bay and the delineation of the Susquehanna River from earlier maps in the sequence taking into account the latest English information. Curiously the interior of the region outside of the Hudson and Connecticut Valleys is shown to be wildly misunderstood. The native tribes that occupied the interior and the French who controlled the St. Lawrence Valley Quebec to the north generally did not express pleasure upon encountering foreign explorers and this ensured that very little information regarding these regions was available to either English or Dutch cartographers. Lake Champlain or the "Lake of Irocoisiensis" is located far to the east of its true location and the delineation of the St. Lawrence River is based on pure speculation. The enigmatic interior is however graced by the finely-engraved presence of woodland animals such as a bear a deer an otter and several beavers. The title cartouche in the lower right is elegantly surmounted by the Royal arms of England. Campbell 'The Jansson-Visscher Maps of New England' 23 in Tooley Mapping of America pp.290-291; McCorkle Early Printed Maps of New England 676.6. Thomas Basset & Richard Chiswell unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 20443

‎SPEED John‎

‎A Newe Mape of Tartary; 1626 John Speed Map of Tartary‎

‎London: George Humble 1626. unbound. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 15.25" x 19.75". This beautiful carte a figures map of Tartary by John Speed presents the many geography speculations found at a time when parts of Asia were largely unexplored by Europeans. Extends from Armenia eastward to include part of North America and includes the Arctic Sea and Nova Zembla. Korea is presented as an Island while the Kamchatka Peninsula is entirely absent. The Straits of Anian believed to be associated with the mythical Northwest Passage is identified. The Great Wall of China is depicted in a grand style south of which lies the Kingdom of China. Throughout several kingdoms important cities rivers lakes islands mountains and other topographical features are noted. These includes important cities which were part of the ancient Silk Route. The Caspian Sea presented along its East-West Axis according to the practice of the time is identified by various names Sea of Sala otherwise Bachu called by the Russians Chualenske More in old time the Caspian and Hircan Sea. Further north Tazota Island from the Roman geographer Pliny the Elder appears in the Arctic Circle. Beijing or Peking appears north of the Great Wall and is identified by the name Cambalu as used my Marco Polo. Interesting notations are also included throughout including one north of the Great Wall reading "In this Country is a hil out of which they dig earth called by Pliny terra Asbestus having fine veines like grasse which being spun and weaved yeeld cloth that wil nut burn in the fire". The map is surrounded on the left and right with illustrations of the costumes and people from various parts of the region. Along the top border four views are included detailing the cities Astrakan Samarkand Cambalu and a view of the house of Nova Zembla. Engraved by Dirck Grijp. Appears in Speed's important "Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World". The map is in good condition with some wear along the original centerfold. Overall foxing and some tape residue long the top margin from framing. Very good impression. English text verso. John Speed 1552-1629 is widely considered to be the most famous English cartographer of the 17th century. His atlas "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine" contained the first set of individual county maps of England and Wales as well as significant town plans that are in many cases the first visual records of their subjects. This important map of Asia is a wonderful example of his work. George Humble unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 273459

‎SPEED John‎

‎A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World with: The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine‎

‎London: Printed by Iohn Dawson for George Humble and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head Pallace 1631 – Whit horse in Popes-head Alley 1627 1631. 1631. 2 works in one volume. Folio. ‘Prospect’: letterpress title-page incorporating contents leaf engraved frontispiece portrait of Speed by Salomon Savery finely hand-coloured by William Morris protected by 19th-century tissue guard double-page double-hemisphere map of the world and 20 further maps all with descriptive text on the verso; ‘Civill Warres’: double-page map; ‘Theatre’: engraved title-page general letterpress title-page with arms of James I by Jodocus Hondius dated 1614 on verso dedication to James I with wood-engraved arms on verso 3 sectional letterpress title-pages with woodcut arms on verso 67 double-page engraved county maps. Contemporary panelled calf gilt each cover decorated with blind and gilt fillets fleurons and a large central gilt arabesque with the supra libros of the von Bodeck family on the front cover rebacked corners and edges strengthened 19th-century endpapers. Collation: ‘Prospect’: -2 A-I2 K-T2 V2 X2 ff 2 1-44; ‘Civill Warres’: X22 2 ff 5-8; ‘Theatre’: A-E2 E2 G-I2 K-T2 V2 X-Z2 2A-2I2 2K-2T2 2V2 2X-2Z2 3A-3I2 3K-3T 3V2 3X-3Z2 4A-4G2 4H ff 8 1-94 pp 95-98 ff 99-126 pp 127-130 ff 131-132 pp 133 – 136 ff 137-146 ‘Index’: ff 5. Speed’s ‘Prospect’ is the earliest world atlas to be published by an Englishman. It includes the world map ‘A New and Accurat Map of the World’ showing California as an island. Other maps include: the four continents Greece the Roman Empire Germany Bohemia France the Low Countries Spain Italy Hungary Denmark Poland Persia the Ottoman Empire China Tartary and Bermuda. Together with the ‘The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine’ Speed’s atlas consists of 89 double-page maps. It followed the model of Ortelius’s ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’ - first published in English in 1606 - in its title and its format with map sheets backed by historical and geographical texts and gazetteers of place names. “This was the earliest English attempt at producing an atlas on a grand scale with the first detailed maps of the provinces of Ireland the first set of county maps consistently attempting to show the boundaries of territorial divisions and the first truly comprehensive set of English town plans-a notable contribution to British topography. Perhaps as many as 50 of the 73 towns had not previously been mapped and about 51 of the plans were probably Speed’s own work. “In 1606 Speed might have been helped by his son John in surveying towns. A balance is struck between the modern and historical with information placed on the edges of the maps about antiquarian remains and sites and vignettes of famous battles together with arms of princes and nobles. This additional information is one of the ‘Theatre’’s most significant contributions. Scotland is covered in less detail as Timothy Pont was surveying there. “Individual maps for the ‘Theatre’ were prepared from about 1602 plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius-noted for his skills in decoration-from 1607 George Humble was granted a privilege to print the ‘Theatre’ for twenty-one years from 1608 and the ‘Theatre’ and ‘History’ were published together in 1611-1612. They were an immediate success: three new editions and issues of each appeared during Speed’s lifetime and a miniature version was first published about 1619-1620. The maps in the ‘Theatre’ became the basis for subsequent folio atlases until the mid-eighteenth century. By 1625 Speed had lost his sight. Nevertheless in 1627 he published ‘A Prospect of the most Famous Parts of the World’ which shared a title-page with the 1627 edition of the Theatre. ‘The Prospect’ the earliest world atlas by an Englishman’ though not the first to be published in England†Sarah Bendall for DNB. On the title-page the atlas’s first owner Nicolai von Bodeck 1611-1676 has recorded buying the book in London in 1632 shortly after it was available to the public and also the year of publication of the Savery portrait of Speed which appears as the frontispiece in this example. Sudbury and Humble one of the earliest print and booksellers in the City had a shop in Popes Head Alley where Bodeck presumably bought this book. Bodeck was born in Danzig and studied in Strassburg England and Holland between 1628 and 1632; he was an avid book collector with such a well-known interest in maps that a map by Willem Hondius of eastern Prussia was dedicated to him. The family’s library was dispersed at auction in Danzig in December 1695.  Two hundred years later the atlas was a valued book in the library of William Morris 1834-1896 celebrated artist designer author and visionary socialist. In his own manuscript catalogue of his library compiled in 1876 and now at the Yale Center for British Art Morris records that he paid one pound and 15 shillings for this example of Speed’s ‘Prospect’ and ‘Theatre’. In a second manuscript catalogue now at the Bridwell Library Southern Methodist University which was compiled in about 1890 the book has been entered with “XXX†next to it marking it as one of Morris’ most prized possessions. After Morris’ death the Speed was one of the books acquired by Richard Bennett from Manchester who then consigned it and many others to auction at Sotheby’s in December 1898. It was purchased at that auction by Walter Leighton of J. and J. Leighton booksellers on behalf of Emery Walker Morris’s great friend. They first met in 1883 and in 1888 joined Walter Crane and others in founding the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. “Among the subjects in which they were both deeply interested was the art of typography then at a low ebb. Out of the lecture on printing and illustration which Walker delivered at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition in 1888 and the seminal essay on typography which he wrote and Morris expanded for the exhibition catalogue arose the Kelmscott Press the first of the great private presses which they established early in 1891 in modest premises close to Morris’s Kelmscott House†Cockerell. ESTC: Prospect S122258; Theatre S122267; WilliamMorrisLibrary online. Printed by Iohn Dawson for George Humble, and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head Pallace, 1631 – Whit horse in Popes-hea unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 14289

‎SPEED John‎

‎America.‎

‎London: are to be sold in popes head Alley against the Exchnage by I.S. and George Humble cum privilegio 1626. 1626 but 1627. Double-page engraved map with fine hand-colour in full. For this map Abraham Goos drew “on his engraving of North America in 1624 and the Briggs of 1625 to depict California as an island once more. He was the only Dutch cartographer to do so for some considerable time. There are five fewer place-names in California than the Briggs. He includes a similar faint northwest coastline and Strait of Anian. ‘Brasil’ and ‘Frisland’ remnants from the sixteenth century make a stubborn appearance in the North Atlantic. The fledgling colonies of Plymouth in New England and ‘Iames Citti’ in Virginia are both recognised. Decorating the whole are three attractive borders. The two sides illustrated the natives of the continent the left bears those of the north and the right those of the south. Despite the map’s obvious attention to the English presence in North America none of the eight towns represented in the third is from that part. This is owing to the lack of any contemporary views to draw on†Burden. John Speed is perhaps the most famous single figure in the early history of the English map trade. He was a member of the Merchant Taylors' Company made a freeman of the city in September 1580 and later Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. By training he was probably a rolling-press printer but by interest he was a historian and Queen Elizabeth granted him a sinecure in the Customs House to give him the opportunity to pursue these interests. His earliest cartographic publications were historical; in 1595 he published a wall map of the Holy Land ‘Canaan as it was Possessed both in Abraham and Israels Dayes’ a two-sheet map of The Invasions of England and Ireland with all their Civill Warres since the Conquest’ 1601 and a wall map of England Wales and Ireland showing the same information 1603-1604. In 1611 he prepared two Bible maps the larger inserted in folio editions of the great King James Bible the smaller in octavo printings; Speed also secured a privilege dated 31st October 1610 to ensure that the map was inserted in every copy of the Bible sold a lucrative arrangement that the Stationers' Company eventually felt impelled to buy out from his heirs. Speed always considered his ‘History of Great Britaine’ 1611 his major work but his reputation was established by the companion atlas volume ‘Theatre of the Empire of great Britaine’ published in 1612 the first printed atlas of the British Isles. The earliest map prepared was ‘The County Palatine of Chester’ 1604 but the death of the engraver William Rogers meant that Speed's publishers had to turn to Jodocus Hondius an Amsterdam engraver to prepare the maps. The atlas was completed in 1612; the maps are notable for the decorative elements included evidence of Speed's interest in antiquities and most have inset town-plans the first series of printed town-plans of the British Isles and were issued with descriptive English text printed on the verso. In the hands of different publishers there were numerous editions to 1676 with text; later printings into the 1770s were issued without text. Towards the end of his career Speed also prepared a world atlas: the ‘Prospect of the most Famous Parts of the World’ 1627 the first world atlas compiled by an Englishman and published in England although the maps were engraved in Amsterdam using Dutch models. Again this was printed with English text on the verso and reprinted thereafter. While early editions are rarer perhaps the most important edition was the 1676 printing which added newly prepared English maps of New England Virginia the Carolinas Barbados and Jamaica. Speed's publishers also prepared two pocket atlases colloquially called “miniature Speeds†reproducing the ‘Theatre’ and ‘Prospect’ on a smaller less expensive format. The county atlas ‘England Wales and Ireland: . their several Counties abridged’ first appeared in 1627 although there is an earlier proof version from about 1620; the ‘A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World’ appeared in 1646; both were reprinted in several editions up to 1675. However Speed himself probably had little creative contribution to either atlas. Burden 217; Tooley The Mapping of America page 113 are to be sold in popes head Alley against the Exchnage by I.S. and George Humble cum privilegio, unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 14338

‎Speed John‎

‎An Atlas of Tudor England and Wales‎

‎London: Penguin Books 1953. Forty plates from John Speed's pocket atlas of 1627. Introduced and described by E. G. R. Taylor. 31 1p. plus 40 colored illus. original stiff printed boards King Penguin books 61. Penguin Books unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 033292