Schreiber’s Map of the British Isles Mapmaker(s)_Dewynters Press an album of maps and

an album of maps and plans published between 1676-1694 devoted to “the glorious victories of Louis the Great” between 1643-1692

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

which is the focus of the map

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

Oppianus of Corycus & Oppianus of Apamea

Schreiber’s Map of the British Isles Mapmaker(s)_Dewynters Press an album of maps andGros 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,