Old Map of Cornwall in 1611 by John Speed - Truro, Falmouth, Penzance, St Austell collector’s artful geography Mountainous contours dominate Basse-Terre’s verdant

Mountainous contours dominate Basse-Terre’s verdant interior

a lover of vintage maps

whether that means childhood holidays around Lowestoft and Orford Ness

and marked shipping lanes

It suits anyone with a connection to the Thames valley towns it covers

Old Map of Cornwall in 1611 by John Speed - Truro, Falmouth, Penzance, St Austell collector’s artful geography Mountainous contours dominate Basse-Terre’s verdantTin built Cornwall's medieval economy long before John Speed set out to map the county in 1611, and the ancient stannary system that governed the tin trade shapes much of what this map records. Published in Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the first county by county atlas of England and Wales, the Cornwall plate was engraved in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius and printed in London from 1611, carrying the same decorative cartouche, scale