Blaeu 1645
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item:- Carlisle Library : Map 55 |
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Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoria Comitatus Anglice
Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Johann
Blaeu, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1645, French edition 1663 or
1667.
Perhaps from la Geographie Blauianae, or Le Theatre du Monde, ou Nouvelle Atlas; there is text in French on the reverse, pp.291, 292. |
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Blaeu 1645 | |
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printed title cartouche, lower right
WESTMORIA / COMITATUS; / Anglice / WESTMORLAND. |
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| inscription:- |
printed below the scale line, lower left
Quatuor Milliaria Anglica / sive unum Milliare Germanicum. |
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| inscription:- |
printed rev
WESTMORE-LAND. / AV bout de Lancastre tirant vers le Nord est une autre petite Province, que estoit des Brigantes, nommee en Latin Westmorlandia, & par nous Westmoreland. ... |
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| scale line:- | 6 miles = 60.2 mm | |
| wxh, map:- | 498x377mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 160000 ? (1 to 160400 from scale line, wrongly assuming a statute mile) | |