Morden 1695
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Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 3
miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695.
Included in Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English, by Edmund Gibson, Queens College, Oxford, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695. |
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Morden 1695 | |
| map feature:- | scroll cartouche & up is N & scale lines & lat and long scales (W from London? slanted rectangular projection) & sea plain & galleons & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads | |
| inscription:- |
printed title cartouche, upper left
CUMBER / LAND / by Robert Morden |
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| inscription:- |
printed lower right
Sold by Abel Swale Awnsham / and John Churchill |
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| inscription:- |
printed above and with 3 scale lines
A Scale of 10 Miles |
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| scale line:- | 10 miles = 63.5 mm | |
| scale line:- | 10 miles = 59.1 mm | |
| scale line:- | 10 miles = 55.0 mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 210000 ? (average from scale lines, wrongly assuming a statute mile) | |
| wxh, sheet:- | 43.5x38.5cm | |
| wxh, plate:- | 419x366mm | |
| wxh, map:- | 421x364mm | |