A New Map of Latium, Etruria, and as much of Ancient Italy, as lay Between Gallia Cisalpina and Graecia Magna...

Map from A New Sett of Maps both from Ancient and Present Geography.. published in Oxford between 1700 and 1701.

Edward Wells (1667 - 1727) was an English mathematician, geographer, and classical scholar based at Christ Church College, Oxford. Wells trained for the ministry but quickly found himself unsuited to religious life and instead applied for an academic position at Oxford, where he authored numerous well respected works on a wide range of mathematical and scientific topics. He tutored Prince William, the sickly son of Queen Anne, who was likely about 11 at the time this map was prepared. Wells dedicated nearly all of the maps in his atlas, A New Sett of Maps both of Ancient and Present Geography, to the young prince - quite possibly posthumously, as William died in July of 1700 shortly prior to the publication of the atlas. Nonetheless, Wells' geography proved popular and was published in number editions well into the 1730s.

Copperplate with fine later hand colour, traces of glue at the central fold, otherwise good condition.