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JandMN (329)
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Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria,
Cestria etc, scale about 45 miles to 1 inch, published by
William Blaeu, Amsterdam. Netherlands, 1639.
The map was included in a version of Britannia by William
Camden, abridged by Regner Vitellus. It was originally
published by Jodocus Hondius the younger in the 3rd enlarged
edn of a miniature world atlas by Petrus Bertius, Petrii
Bertii Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum Libri Septem,
1616. The map was reduced by Jodocus Hondius from his
version of the map first drawn by Gerhard Mercator 1595.
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map feature:-
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strapwork cartouche & labelled borders (Latin) & up
is N & scale line & lat and long scales & sea
moire effect & sandbanks & coast shaded & rivers
& relief & hillocks & county & settlements
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inscription:-
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printed title cartouche, upper left
Westmorla~d : / Lancastria / Cestria etc.
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inscription:-
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printed with scale line
Miliaria Anglica.
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scale line:-
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30 miles = 16.9 mm
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map type:-
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Hondius 1616 (edn 1639/Wmd/Lan)
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wxh, sheet:-
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14x13cm
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wxh, map:-
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134x95mm
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scale:-
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1 to 2900000 ? (1 to 2856824 from scale line wrongly
assuming a statute mile)
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General notes
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Map, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc, scale about
45 miles to 1 inch, and Northumbria, Cumberlandia, Dunelm
Episcopi, by Jodocus Hondius the younger, 1616.
Reduced by Jodocus Hondius from his versions of the maps
first drawn by Gerhard Mercator 1595., and published by him
in the 3rd, enlarged edn of a miniature world atlas by
Petrus Bertius, Petrii Bertii Tabularum Geographicarum
Contractarum Libri Septem, 1616.
Published by William Blaeu, Amsterdam. Netherlands,
1639.
Included in a version of Britannia by William Camden,
abridged by Regner Vitellus.
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email:- JandMN@norgate.freeserve.co.uk