Wallis 1815
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item:- British Library : Maps 162.p.2 |
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Jigsaw puzzle, wood, hand coloured engraving, Wallis's
New Travelling Map of England and Wales, scale about 3 miles
to 1 inch, published by John Wallis, London, about 1815.
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Wallis 1815 | |
| jigsaw feature:- | hand coloured (map border only) & hand cut & interlocking border & non interlocking pieces & picture pieces (counties) & 70 piece & big piece & sliding lid box (mahogany with a cheap wood base) | |
| inscription:- |
printed; label on box lid
WALLIS'S / NEW TRAVELLING MAP / OF / ENGLAND AND WALES / with Part of / SCOTLAND , / on which are Delineated / THE DIRECT AND PRINCIPAL CROSS ROADS, / with the / MARKET TOWNS AND VILLAGES, / ALSO / The Course of the Great Rivers, / to which is added / The Distance between one Market Town and another, / AND THE / Exact admeasurement prefixed to each County Town and City, / from the Metropolis. |
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| map feature:- | up is N & lat and long scales (prime meridian is London, somewhere) & table of symbols & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & county & settlements & roads & road distances & distances from London & post roads | |
| wxh:- | 49.5x61.5cm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 200000 ? (50m lat = 465.5 mm gives 1 to 199281) | |
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