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John Speed and John Ogilby, 15-16th Century Cartographers

Last Updated: 20-Dec-2013

This guide introduces John Speed (1552?-1639) and John Ogilby (1600-1676), British cartographers and their published works with a focus on their cartographic works available at Stanford.

Resources at Stanford

British map engravers : a dictionary of engravers, lithographers and their principal employers to 1850 / Laurence Worms and Ashley Baynton-Williams.
London : Rare Book Society, 2011.
Earth Sciences Library (Branner) » Reference maps » GA793 .W67 2011
Includes entries for both Cartographers.
Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers / editor, Josephine French ; consulting editors, Valerie Scott, Mary Alice Lowenthal ; picture research, Valerie Scott.
Rev. ed. Tring, Herts : Map Collector Publications in association with Richard Arkway, Inc., 1999-
Green Library
Includes entries for both Cartographers.

Selection of Works, John Speed:

"History of Great Britaine..." 1611, including the atlas volume " The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine..."

John Ogilby:

Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia....authors ... by John Ogilby ...

Additional Works, John Speed

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  1. Africae, described, the manners of their Habits, and buildinge:
  2. Africae described the manners of their habits and buildings newly done into English

    by I.S. Abraham Goes sculpsit. 1626

  3. Africae described the manners of their habits and buildings newly done into English
  4. AMERICA with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings Discribed and inlarged by I.S.Ano.1626
  5. AMERICA with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings Discribed and inlarged by I.S.Ano.1626

Additional works: John Ogilby

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  1. Aethiopia Inferior vel Exterior
  2. Nigritarum regio
  3. Nigritarum regio
  4. Guinea
  5. Novissima et Accuratissima TOTIUS AMERICÆ DESCRIPTIO

    per JOHANEM OGILUIUM Cosmographum Regium [John Ogilby].. 1671