78/5415 [Netherlands]. "A New Mape of ye XVII Provinces of Low Germanie, mended a new in manie places. by I. Speed." Handcol. engr. map w. cartouche by J. SPEED, strip w. 8 town-profiles at the top, strip w. 5 male figures in costume to the left and strip w. 5 similar female figures to the right, 41,5x53,5 cm., w. the addresses of Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswell below the cartouche, 1676, framed (recto and verso of leaf visible).

- False creases and browned along (closed) central fold; sm. closed hole to the right of the compass; a few sm. restorations in lower margin, partly into the border.

= Van der Heijden 88, 4th and final state: "De kaart steunt duidelijk op die van Kaerius van 1617. Het graveerwerk is waarschijnlijk verricht in het atelier van Jodocus Hondius, hetzij in London (hij werkte tot 1593 in London en genoot daar met Kaerius grote bekendheid) hetzij in Amsterdam na 1593." With profiles of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Atrecht, Ghent, Groningen, Middelburg, Utrecht and Zutphen and costumes of "A Gentleman", "A Brabander", "A Hollander", "A Fisher Man" and "A Contreyman" and their female counterparts. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.