“Europ, and the Cheife Cities contained therein, described with the habits of most Kingdoms now in use” by John Speed (1551/2-1629) from his atlas ‘A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World’, engraved by another legendary cartographer Abraham Goos (1590-ca.1643) and published in London by George Humble in 1626. This famous map includes eight small vignette city maps and view across the top, including: London, Paris, Rome, Constantinople (today’s Istanbul), Venice, Prague, Amsterdam and Lisbone (old English spelling). Ten vignettes are included along the sides depicting Europeans in their native dress.
