A beautiful original color example of Visscher's Ireland:   HIBERNIAE REGNUM tam in praecipuas ULTONIAE, CONNACIAE, LAGENIAE, et MOMONIA...per GUILIELMUM PETTY... NICOLAUM VISSCHER AMST:BAT: cum Privileg...Nunc apud PET Schenk Iunior

Original copperplate engraved map
Original body color,  cartouche uncolored as issued
560 x 470 mm
Map # E-185
$ 1,150

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A large, detailed, early 18th century map of Ireland, showing many villages and other geographically interesting sites.  Visccher's map of Ireland served as the model for Johann Baptist Homann and other's maps of Ireland.  This is a beautiful map in original color, well engraved and well colored.

This map was originally prepared by Nicolas Visscher II for the Atlas Minor (a folio-size atlas).  Upon Visscher's death in 1702, his widow, Elizabeth, continued the business until it passed (along with the copperplate that produced this map) to Petrus Schenk and his sons.  This map was published by the son, Petrus Schenk II (1698-1775) for an edition of Schenk's Atlas Contractus (Law, p. 51).  Law dates this map as 1710 but it seems to have been published a few years after that date, possibly as late as 1725.

Reference:  Law, Andrew Bonar.  The Printed Maps of Ireland 1612-1850.  Dublin:  The Neptune Gallery, 1997.

An attractive map in very fine condition.  One wormhole in left margin and several smudge spots from original color pigment along left outer grid.