Old Roman Empire World Map, 1626 by John Speed - Rare Wall Art of Western and Byzantine chester Southend on Sea didn't exist

Southend on Sea didn't exist yet

There's the mythical Strait of Anián

but also visible are the port towns of Leith

though most of them are spell quite differently

Old Roman Empire World Map, 1626 by John Speed - Rare Wall Art of Western and Byzantine chester Southend on Sea didn't existThis is a rare, handcoloured map of the Roman Empire from 1626 by the most famous cartographer of his time, John Speed. The map shows the Roman Empire at its largest, spanning all the way from the British Isles to North Africa to Assyria (modern day Iraq Iran). At the bottom of the map is a 'short declaration' of the beginning, increase and height of the Roman Empire or at least, as far as John Speed understood it in 1626. This map looks great at all