Kitchin 1750s
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Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 10.5
miles to 1 inch, by Thomas Kitchin, published in The London
Magazine by R Baldwin, at the Rose, Paternoster Row, London,
1750.
Said to be the edn of 1767. |
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Kitchin 1750s | |
| map feature:- | pictorial cartouche & coat of arms & table of symbols & compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads | |
| inscription:- |
printed title cartouche, lower right
CUMBERLAND / Drawn from the / best Surveys, / Maps, Charts, &c. / & Regulated by / ASTRONL. OBSERVATNS. / By T. Kitchin Geogr. |
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| inscription:- |
printed above scale line
British Statute Miles |
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| scale line:- | 12 miles = 29.6 mm | |
| wxh, sheet:- | 19x20cm | |
| wxh, map:- | 180x190mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 650000 ? (1 to 652437 from scale line) | |