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Kitchin 1751 small
FA1997.9:- 

 Map, Hampshire, uncoloured copper plate engraving, Hampshire and Isle of Wight, scale about 11 miles to 1 inch, by Thomas Kitchin, London, about 1751.
Published by R Baldwin junr, the Rose, Paternoster Row, London.
The maps of Kitchin are copies, not based on original surveys despite extravagant claims to the contrary.
map feature:-  not coloured & title cartouche & coat of arms (municipal, Southampton) & compass rose & scale line & lat and long scales & table of symbols & coast form lines & rivers & relief & hillocks & woods & settlements & roads
inscription:-  printed -on- cartouche HAMPSHIRE / Drawn from the best / Surveys & Maps / Corrected from / Astronl. Observations / By T. Kitchin Geographr. -- beehive, trees, ship
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom Printed for R. Baldwin Junr. at the Rose in Pater Noster Row
scale line:-  15 miles = 43.5 mm
map type:-  HantsMap -- Kitchin 1751 small
dimension:-  wxh = 22.5x19.5cm
scale = 1 to 550000 ? (1 to 554946 from scale line assuming modern mile)
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reference:-  (map taken from) Kitchin, Thomas: 1749 = 1787: Small English Atlas
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MN: 7.1.2002