The Province Ulster described.

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Original antique copper engraving, hand colored in wash and outline. Very decorative map of the County of Ulster in Northern Ireland. From an early edition of Speed's "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain", with the imprint "Sudbury and Humble" lower right, dated 1610. Below the two mile scales with English miles and Irish miles. In the lower left corner with the inset map of Enis Kelling (Enniskillen) Fort and in the upper left corner the renaissance title cartouche: The Province Ulster described. John Speed ​​(1551 or 1552 – 28 July 1629) was an English cartographer, chronologist and historian with roots in Cheshire. The son of a London commoner and tailor, he left his family's profession to take up the task of compiling and revising the history, topography and maps of the kingdoms of Great Britain to represent the union of their monarchies in the person of Kings James I and VI. He accomplished this with remarkable success, with the support and help of the leading antiquarians of his generation. He drew on the shire maps of Christopher Saxton, John Norden and others and improved them, being the first to insert the hundred boundaries into them, and he was the surveyor and originator of many of the town plans they contain. His work helped to define early modern concepts of British national identity. His biblical genealogies were also officially associated with the first edition of the King James Bible. He is one of the most famous English cartographers. (Wikipedia)