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Map, hand coloured engraving, Anglia ie England and Wales, scale about 22 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, engraved by Augustine Ryther, published in an atlas of counties, London, 1579.
   Saxton 1579
map feature:- strapwork cartouche & coat of arms & compass rose & labelled borders & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & sea stippled & galleons & sea monsters & coast shaded & rivers & relief & hillocks & forests & county & settlements &
scale line:- 50 miles = 57.7 mm
wxh, map:- 234x488mm
scale:- 1 to 1400000 ? (1 to 1394579 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile)
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