The Kingdome of Irland. Mounster. Ulster.Linster.Connack.
London: Petrus Kaerius caelavit [George Humble], c.1632. Notes: A set of 5 miniature maps of Ireland and its counties.
Pieter van den Keere (Latin: Petrus Kaerius 1571 – c. 1646) was a Flemish engraver, publisher and globe maker who worked for the most part of his career in England and the Dutch Republic.
Miniature Speeds
A series of 44 plates for the British Isles, from about 1599, took a long time to publish. They were based on Christopher Saxton, Ortelius, and Giovanni Battista Boazio, respectively for England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. They appeared in 1617 in a Latin edition of the Britannia of William Camden, by Willem Blaeu. Later, these plates came to William Humble or George Humble (according to Royal Geographical Society fellow, Carl Moreland and David Bannister—map dealer—in "Antique Maps") who issued them (with some modification and expansion) in 1627 as a miniature version of the atlas of John Speed. Thereby van den Keere's works came by the name "Miniature Speeds".
, Size : 85x123 (mm), 3.35x4.84 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Category: Maps Europe Ireland;. Very Good. Item #M11092
Price: $750.00