From an edition of the pocket atlas which is often referred to as the ‘miniature Speed’.
The maps are by Pieter van den Keere, a dutch engraver and publisher, and thought to date originally from 1599, They were aquired by George Humble, a publisher and printer, in the 1620s,
In 1627, Humble published a major atlas of John Speed's Maps,'The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine,' the first published atlas of the British Isles, and it appears that he published a miniature atlas (a 'pocket edition') to coincide with this, using Van der Keere's maps, edited and modifed to resemble Speed's maps, which is why Van den Keer's maps are now often referred to as “miniature Speeds”
Continental pocket atlases such as the ‘Epitome’ of Ortelius’ ‘Theatrum’, and Mercator’s ‘Atlas Minor’ worked in much the same way.
