A scarce, separate-issue map of the British Isles with decorative borders

A superbly-decorated carte-à-figure map of the British Isles. The borders contain: prospects of London and Edinburgh; plans of Newcastle, Cambridge, Canterbury, York, Oxford, Galway, Dublin, Norwich, Bristol and Chester; portrait of Elizabeth I and James I; eight costume vignettes of the English, Scots and Irish; and the arms of James I, England, Scotland and Ireland. The map had a long life: it engraved by Abraham Goos and first issued c.1623; it was reissued with the dates of 1630 & 1650 (as this example); a fourth state saw the borders beaten out so the map could be extended, with more modern decorations; and finally c.1679 with Visscher's name removed. The map was highly influential: it was immediately copied by Jodocus Hondius II, whose plate was one of those bought by Willem Blaeu to incorporate into his own atlas.