Ryther was associated with engraving maps of the counties of England published by Saxton in 1579. His name appears as the engraver of the maps of
County Durham and
Westmoreland (1576), Gloucester and York (1577), and that of the whole of England, signed ‘Augustinus Ryther Anglus Sculpsit Ano Dñi 1579.’ His name appears in 1588 with those of
Jodocus Hondius,
Theodore de Bry, and others, among the engravers of the charts to ''The Mariner's Mirrour'' by
Sir Anthony Ashley. In 1590 Ryther published a translation of
Petruccio Ubaldini's
Expeditionis Hispaniorum in Angliam vera Descriptio. The book was printed by A. Hatfield. This work is dedicated by Ryther to
Lord Howard of Effingham, and in the dedication he apologises for the two years' delay in its publication. The plates consist of a title and ten charts, showing the various stages of the progress and defeat of the
Spanish Armada in the
English Channel, and tracing its further course round the British Isles. They were drawn apparently by
Robert Adams, surveyor of the queen's buildings, and form a major record of the Armada. It is probable that Ryther's charts, or Adams's original drawings, were the basis for
tapestries of the Spanish Armada, executed by
Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom in Holland, and formerly in the
House of Lords. Reduced copies of Ryther's charts were published by
John Pine in his work on the Armada tapestries. The tables were published by Ryther separately. ==References==