The Travels of George Edwards Cheshire This miniature map of the

This miniature map of the British Isles oriented with East at the top was published in James Beeverell’s ‘Les Delices de la Grand Bretagne et de l’Irland’

private documents

The map in this  is printed in three colours with some landmarks depicted pictorially

and eventually expanded the atlas to create an Atlas major which rivalled Blaeu's

richly adorned with seals

The Travels of George Edwards Cheshire This miniature map of theThis map of the British Isles and northwestern Europe charts George Edwards's travels between 1716 and 1730 and features male and female stag beetles from Borneo, the bill of an Egyptian Ibis and a Jamaican Hummingbird. Edwards was gifted amateur scientist and ornithologist. His four volume work A Natural History Of Uncommon Birds and of some other Rare and Undescribed Animals was published between 1743 and 1751, and contains over 200 outstanding