Schreiber’s Map of the British Isles Mapmaker(s)_Dewynters Press with prefatory epistles by Denys

with prefatory epistles by Denys Lambin and Jean Bienné (Benenatus)

He and his wife (aged 28 and 22) drowned in the English Channel off Dieppe in 1887: a four-page offprint from the Wokingham Parish Magazine (torn in half) is tipped in

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

In his carto-bibliography Howgego does not mention that a variant of this map was issued under the imprint of publisher John Lingard

representing the inhabitants of each colony or dominion

Schreiber’s Map of the British Isles Mapmaker(s)_Dewynters Press with prefatory epistles by DenysGros 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,