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Carlisle Library : Map 23

Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, amended by Christopher Brown, 1695, published by Henry Overton, the White Horse without Newgate, London, 1713-43.
There is an inset map for Carlisle.
Ten percent of the map, lower left, is missing.
   Speed 1695
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper left
CUMBERLAND / AND THE ANCIENT CITIE / CARLILE DESCRIBED / WITH MANY MEMORABLE AN / TIQUITIES THEREIN / FOUND OBSERVED / Sold by Hen. Overton at ye white / horse without Newgate London
scale line:- 10 miles = 64.5 mm
wxh, map:- 504x383mm
scale:- 1 to 250000 ? (1 to 249511 from scale line, wrongly assuming a statute mile)