The Island of Ireland
These images of Ireland trace the changing roles of maps from military conquest in the sixteenth century to the growth of commerce in the eighteenth.
Thomas Stafford, Pacata Hibernia ... an Historie of the Late Warres of Ireland (London, 1633).
Atlas Major, sive Cosmographia Blaviana, (Amsterdam, 1662).
John Speed, The Theatre of the Empire of Great-Britain (London, 1676).
William Petty, Hiberniae Delineatio (London, 1683).
Edmund Halley, Atlas Maritimus and Commercialis; Or, A General View of the World (London, 1728).
Murdoch Mackenzie, A Maritime survey of Ireland and the West of Great Britain (London, 1776).
Taylor and Skinner's Maps of the Roads Of Ireland (Dublin & London, 1778).
Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London, 1837).