BERMUDA

BERMUDA.

Historical maps.
Antique map by John Speed (1626).
Last stamp in a set of 5, issued on 14.05.1979.
Face value: 50 cents of Bermudian dollar.
Printing: Offset lithography.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 373.
- Scott No. 384.
- StampWorld No. 376.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 408.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 374.

John Speed (1551 or 1552 -1629) was an English cartographer and historian. He drew historical maps in 1601 and 1627 depicting the invasion of England and Ireland in the Middle Ages. It was with the encouragement of William Camden that Speed began his Historie of Great Britaine, which was published in 1611. Speed's atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine was published in 1611- 1612, and contained the first set of individual county maps of England and Wales besides maps of Ireland and a general map of Scotland. In 1627, two years before his death, published Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World which was the first world atlas produced by an Englishman.