LOndon: Sold by J. Newbery at ye Bible & Sun in St, Pauls Ch:Yard, London, Publish’d accorg to Act of Parlt Jany 2d 1758. Engraved frontispiece, title-page, preface, and index; 52 engraved leaves of hand-coloured maps, plus an engraved advertisement leaf. Each leaf is printed on one side only. Original full untitled tan calf gilt. 114 x 89 mm. First edition; first issue, with the Errata at the foot of the index page concerning the corrections to the map of Africa. Lacks front free endpaper; small corner missing from rear free endpaper; ownership names on front endpaper; corners a little worn and knocked; else an excellent clean copy of the scarce first edition, complete with the engraved advert leaf, advertising, ‘Speedily will be publish’d in the same size… the Counties of England and Wales. Drawn & Engraved by J. Gibson.’ Roscoe J146A(1). ‘One of the most attractive pocket atlases published in the eighteenth century. They were all finely done, with lovely little title cartouches and notes.’ Geoffrey L. King. Miniature Antique Maps.

[London.]: Georg Humble at ye Whit horse in popeshead Alley, 1627, but circa 1632. [376] pages. Engraved title; engraved ‘Catalogue,’ and 63 maps. Contemporary full vellum; ties broken. Titled in ink on spine, ‘Livre de Comosgraphie.’ Oblong: 104 x 156 mm. Contemporary notes to endpapers; some loss to endpapers; title trimmed at lower edge; else an excellent copy of this miniature atlas with all maps present and without loss. The Index call for a sixty-fourth map, ‘Midia,’ but this was never issued in this edition. Second miniature edition of Speed's atlas of Great Britain and Ireland, following the edition of 1620. The ‘farr larger Voulume Done by John Speed’ refers to the Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611), issued in folio. Thomas Chubb explains that for the first miniature edition of 1620 ‘forty [of the maps] are reprints of Peter Keer's maps of 1599 issued at Amsterdam in 1617 [for William Camden's Viri clarissimi Britannia]. Sixteen are newly engraved maps of some of the English counties which, in the earlier editions of 1599 and 1617, were grouped together, seven are additional maps.’