Lamb, Francis (sold)
Francis Lamb (fl. 1667 - 1701) was an English engraver and mapmaker active in London during the second half of the 17th century. Working as an engraver Lamb produced a number of highly influential maps including four plates of the New World for inclusion in the 1676 Basset and Chiswell edition of Speed's "Prospect of the most famous parts of the world". He worked in conjunction many of the most prominent English map publishers of the 17th century including Richard Blome, John Seller, John Ogilby, Robert Morden, William Berry, Moses Pitt, Philip Lea, among others. Little is known of Lamb's personal life however he seems to have been a pupil of the British polymath Robert Hooke, who mentions him regularly in his journals. The dates of Lamb's birth and death are unknown, there is some speculation that he may have died around 1717. Baynton-Williams quotes abundantly with respect to Lamb from Hooke's diary, and the picture is of an exceedingly busy man with connections to many of the best geographical minds of his day. The novel maps he supplied for the 1676 edition of the Speed atlas may well have benefited even more from these connections than from his skill as an engraver.
One of the first renderings of the Carolina colony's interior.
A New Description of Carolina.
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A beautiful example of John Speed's important 1676 map of the Carolina colony. Heavily based upon the explorations of John Lederer and Ogilby's Lords Proprietor's Map of 1674. This seminal map represents one of the earliest attempts to map the Carolina interior. ... (more details)
First edition of John Speed's transitional and influential map of Virginia, Maryland, and the Chesapeake Bay.
A Map of Virginia and Maryland.
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A fine full color example of Francis Lamb's 1676 map of Virginia, Maryland, and the Chesapeake Bay. Oriented to the west, Lamb's map covers from Albemarle Sound to the Susquehanna River and from the Appalachian Mountains to the Delaware Bay and New Jersey, ... (more details)
Britain's new acquisition, New York, Revealed.
A Map of New England and New York.
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This is beautiful example of the 1676 map of New England engraved by Francis Lamb, to be added to the final edition of John Speed's Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World. This was among the maps Bassett and Chiswell commissioned Lamb to produce in order to bring Speed's atlas up to date. The map is a derivative of Jan Jansson's 1651 'prototype', but alters the Dutch topography with English place names. It is notable for a wealth of 'firsts'. This is the first obtainable English map to show the American Northeast's change of hands from Dutch to Britain suzerainty. As such, it emphasizes the potential wealth of the recent British conquest. It is one of the first printed maps to refer to both Manhattan and surrounding region as 'New York.' It is also among the first maps to correctly place Boston. (more details)
Essential Map for the Carolina Collector.
A New Description of Carolina.
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A striking example of the important and scarce map of the Carolina colony engraved by Francis Lamb in 1676, for inclusion in John Speed's atlas. It is one of the earliest early English maps specifically of the colony acquirable by the collector, published just six years after the founding of Charleston. As such, it is a map of seminal importance, and an essential document in the history of the Carolinas specifically, and the British settlements in North America in general. (more details)
Most Visually Engaging Seventeenth Century Map of Russia.
A Map of Russia.
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This is John Speed's scarce 1676 map of Russia, one of the first English maps of Russia and certainly the most decorative. The map is scarce, having appeared only in the latter, Basset and Chiswell edition of the Speed atlas. Centered on Moscow, the map covers from the North Sea to the Caspian Sea and from Nova Zembla to Trabzon (Black Sea south coast). There is a large and impressive inset map of Moscow: this is centered on the Kremlin, Belygorod, and the Kityagorod. Five inset views depict the Emperor's Court in the Kremlin, the vital port of Archangel, the Russian fort at Narva (in modern Estonia and a crucial stronghold on Russia’s western border), bathhouses and a mill. Above the cartouche are figures dressed in 'The Habit of Russians,' one of whom carries the Russian coat of arms. (more details)