An original copperplate, engraved map of CHESHIRE (The County Palatine of Cheshire and its Hundreds). Engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar around 1667, the 1st state of the map was published in Speed's Maps Epitomized in 1681. This map is the 4th state published in 1714 in Taylor's England Exactly Described, with plate number 6. The verso is blank. The map is framed (365x310mm), glazed, mounted and hand coloured. The printed area measures 235x190mm and the map features a scrolled title cartouche, scale and circular compass. It shows rivers, hills, towns, villages, estates and hundreds (key to hundreds bottom right).  The map is trimmed to its borders and laid to card and there is a small hole (c2mm) at the intersection of two of the original folds. This is a most attractive and uncommon map, engraved by one of the finest map makers of the 17th century.