Rocque 1771

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	item:- British Library : K.Top.V.88
	Road map, The Traveller's Companion or The Post Roads of England and Wales, scale about 21 miles to 1 inch, by John Rocque, published by Robert Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1771.
		Rocque 1771
	map feature:-	vignettes (scenes of travellers on horseback and in a carriage) & up is N & lat and long scales (conical projection, prime meridian thro centre of London) & lat and long grid (1x1degrees) & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & county & settlements & roads & road distances & distances from London
	inscription:-	printed upper right THE / TRAVELLER'S COMPANION / OR THE POST ROADS OF / ENGLAND AND WALES; / with the Distances in Measured Miles. / By the late / JOHN ROCQUE Chorographer to the KING // LONDON : / Printed for ROBT. SAYER, Map and Printseller, / at No.53, in Fleet Street / Publish'd as ye Act directs 1, Octr. / 1771
	inscription:-	printed top left Carte d'Angleterre avec les Routes et Distances Marque en Milles Anglois Par le Sr. J. Rocque
	inscription:-	printed with scale line British Miles 69 1/2 to a Degree
	scale line:-	70 miles = 82.7 mm
	wxh, sheet:-	52.5x55cm
	wxh, map:-	514x514mm
	scale:-	1 to 1400000 ? (1 to 1362202 from scale line)

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