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Map, uncoloured engraving, Mapp of York Shire, scale about 7 miles to 1 inch, by Richard Blome, 1670, probably engraved by Richard Palmer, published, London, 1673.
The map has a dedication to and the coat of arms of Charles Lord Fairfax.
Included in Britannia: or, A Geographical Description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, ...
   Blome 1673
map feature:- labelled borders (English) & up is N & scale line & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & relief & hillocks & woods & parks & county & hundreds & table of hundreds & settlements
inscription:- printed lower centre
A MAPP of YORK SHIRE With its Divisions and Hundreds London printed for Ric : Blome 1670
inscription:- printed upper right
To ye Honble. Charles Ld. / Fairfax Visct. Emula in ye / Kingdome of Ireland &. This / Mapp is humbly Dedicated by / Ric : Blome
coat of arms and drape cartouche
inscription:- printed with scale line
A Scale of 10 Miles
scale line:- 10 miles = 36.6 mm
scale:- 1 to 440000 ? (1 to 439711 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile)
wxh, sheet:- 28.5x22.5cm
wxh, map:- 280x205mm