Schreiber’s Map of the British Isles Mapmaker(s)_Dewynters Press Mercator became aware of the

Mercator became aware of the Butlers wars of the 1560s and 1570s - power struggles between two of the leading Anglo-Irish families (the Butlers and the Fitzgeralds) in Elizabethan Ireland - and the subsequent claims of the adventurer Sir Peter Carew

representing the inhabitants of each colony or dominion

map of Kent with blank verso

Oppianus of Corycus & Oppianus of Apamea

but there seems no reason to doubt that this system was in place

Schreiber’s Map of the British Isles Mapmaker(s)_Dewynters Press Mercator became aware of theGros Britanni[en] oder Engelland Schottland und Irrland The cartouche of this map is dominated by the Hanoverian coat of arms, and the legend on the right lists counties and regions of the British Isles identified with numbers and abbreviations on the map. Shirley suggests that Schreibers pocket Atlas Selectus may have been engraved as early as 1730 and reissued circa 1749 1750. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 16 x 27 cm, original hand colour,