The Speed map of England’s colonies in Virginia and Maryland

A very fine example of this important map of Virginia and Maryland, orientated with north to the right. On the reverse is a letterpress text describing the two provinces. Although the map is usually attributed to Speed, it was engraved by Francis Lamb for the 1676 edition of Speed's 'Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World' (the first English world atlas, first published 1627), by which time Speed had been dead for nearly half a century.