SPEED, JOHN. America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings described and inlarged by I.S. Ano 1626. London 1676.

Hand-coloured engraved map of America surrounded by fine vignettes depicting native costumes of Greenland, Virginia, Florida, Mexico, New England, Peru, Brazil, Mochan and Magellanica. Also with eight town views of major cities at top. The cities illustrated include Havana, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Cusco, and other important South American settlements. With inset map of Greenland and Iceland together with sea beasts and sailing ships. English text on verso. C. 395x515 mm., sheet 420x545 mm. Centrefold repaired, lower margin replaced with new paper, some repairs to margin, some spotting, mostly marginal.

From Speed's atlas Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World. Engraved by Abraham Goos. This is the first atlas map to show California as an island. Dated in the cartouche 1626, published circa 1676 with the imprint of Basset and Chiswell in the cartouche below the title.

Burden #217; #5; Shirley (BL Atlases) T.SPE-2f.