The first printed map of Wales in fine contemporary colouring
Cambriae Typus Auctore Humfredo Lhuydo Denbigiense Cambrobritanno.
Antwerp, 1595, Latin text edition. Fine oiginal colour. 370 x 490mm
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The first map of Wales to be published, based on a manuscript map supplied to Ortelius by the Welshman Humphrey Lhuyd, an M.P. and personal physician to Lord Arundel. Tragically he died at the age of 41, five years before his map was first issued.



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