RICHARD NICHOLSON of CHESTER
A WORLD OF ANTIQUE MAPS AND PRINTS
THE CARTOGRAPHER
RUTGER HERMANNIDES
Rutger Hermannides was a Professor of history t the University of Harderwijk. Best know to map collectors for is heroes of 31 engraved town plan copied from the earlier work of the English cartographer John Speed. They appeared in his Brittania Magna published in 1661
List of Maps in the Atlas
Britannia Magna, sive Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae & adjacentium Insularum Geographico-Historia descriptio. Amstelodami apud Aegidium Valckrnier Ad. 1661
- Newcastle
- Berwick
- Durham
- Lancaster
- York
- Hull
- Chester
- Leicester
- Stafford
- Buckingham
- Oxford
- Gloucester
- Cambridge
- Ely
- Norwich
- Ipswich
- Colchester
- London
- Rochester
- Canterbury
- Dover
- Reading
- Salisbury
- Bristol
- Exeter
- Newport
- Edinburgh
- Galway
- Dublin
- Limerick
- Cork
References:
- Map Collectors' Circle No. 22 Town Plans of the British Isles. Angela Fordham
- Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers Revised Edition E - J
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RICHARD NICHOLSON of CHESTER
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I have been buying and selling antique maps since the early 1960's during which time I had a gallery in Watergate Street, Chester for 30 years. I am now able to offer through my websites a personal service to map and print collectors.