Old Map of Dorset in 1611 by John Speed - Bridport, Lyme Regis, Shaftesbury Shepherds Bush making it a must-have for

making it a must-have for collectors of classic cartography

and Newbury on the Kennet to the west

it’s a valuable educational resource and a testament to the rich history of the Mid-Atlantic region

and lovers of Italian heritage

this Blaeu sheet captures the county as it stood in the mid-1600s

Old Map of Dorset in 1611 by John Speed - Bridport, Lyme Regis, Shaftesbury Shepherds Bush making it a must-have forThis reproduction reproduces John Speed's 1611 map of Dorset, or Dorsetshire as it was then known, taken from his landmark atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the first county by county survey of England and Wales. Unlike many of Speed's more familiar hand coloured county maps, this plate survives as an exceedingly rare monochrome copperplate impression, engraved in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius, whose fine linework gives the map its