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geological map, colour lithograph? A Geological Map of Yorkshire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by C Bird, printed by W and A K Johnston, Edinburgh, published by T Brear, Bradford, Yorkshire, 1881.
The map maker acknowledges the Geological Survey, Miall's Geological Map of Craven, Phillips's 'Mountain Limestone' and 'Sea Coast of Yorkshire', Tate and Blake's 'Yorkshire Lias', etc.
   Bird 1881
map feature:- up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & sea plain & coast line & rivers & county & settlements & roads & railways & geology & stratigraphical column & geological section
inscription:- printed upper right
A / GEOLOGIAL MAP OF / YORKSHIRE / BY C/ BIRD. B.A. / lat Hony. Secy. Bradford Philosophical Society. / 1881
inscription:- printed bottom right
W. & A. K. Johnston, Edinburgh and London.
inscription:- printed above scale line
Scale - Four Miles to an Inch
scale line (beware, labelled in a very peculiar way):- 17 miles = 108.1 mm
wxh, sheet:- 82x72.5cm
wxh, map:- 738x653mm
scale:- 1 to 250000 ? (1 to 253088 from scale line)
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