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Map, uncoloured engraving, Episcopatus Dunelmensis, The Bishoprick of Durham, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, Awnsham, and John Churchill, London, 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.
   Morden 1695
map feature:- scroll cartouche & up is N & scale lines & lat and long scales (W from London? slanted rectangular projection) & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & relief & hillocks & woods & parks & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper left
EPISCOPATUS / DUNELMENSIS / Vulgo / The Bishoprick of / DURHAM / by Robt. Morden.
inscription:- printed lower right
Sold by Abel Swale / Awnsham & John / Churchil.
inscription:- printed above and with 2 scale lines
A Scale of 5 Miles
scale line:- 5 miles = 54.8 mm
scale line:- 5 miles = 50.1 mm
scale:- 1 to 150000 ? (1 to 153417 average from scale lines, wrongly assuming a statute mile)
wxh, sheet:- 45.5x39cm
wxh, map:- 420x363mm