Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Seller, John, active 1658-1698
Title:
Atlas Anglicanus et Cambria, or, A book of mapps of all the countyes in the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales / collected by John Seller, Hydrographer to the King.
Published / Created:
London : And are sold at his shopp at the west side of the Royall Exchange, [1694?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([115] leaves) : 57 hand-colored maps ; 53 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2023 66
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scales differ.
Notes:
Title page is engraved.

Date of publication from Skelton.

Relief shown pictorially.

Map publishers include: Jan Jansson (39 maps), Philip Lea (1), Robert Morden (1), John Overton (2), John Seller (1), Roger Rea (3), and Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell (10).

County atlases of the British Isles, 1579-1850, 115

Includes "A new mapp of England, Scotland, and Ireland" (Moden, Lea, and Seller; with a family tree of English sovereigns from William I to James II). On the back of this map is pasted the engraved list of counties of England and Wales from Seller's Anglia Contracta (1695?).

Bound in contemporary vellum.
Subject Terms:
Engand -- Maps. | Wales -- Maps.
Form/Genre:
Engravings. | Atlases. | Composite atlases. | Hand-coloring.
Contributors:
Bassett, Thomas (Bookseller), publisher. | Chiswell, Richard, publisher. | Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677, cartographer. | Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664, cartographer, publisher. | Lea, Philip, active 1683–1700, publisher. | Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703, publisher. | Overton, John, 1640–1708?, publisher. | Rea, Roger, publisher. | Speed, John, 1552?-1629, cartographer.