Blaeu 1645
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item:- Carlisle Library : Map 24 |
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Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria vulgo Cumberland,
scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by Johann Blaeu, Amsterdam,
Netherlands, 1645-62.
The text on the reverse is pp.359, 360 in Latin; the map is from a Latin edition of Bleau's atlas, for example Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus. Pars Quarta. Amsterdami, Apud Johannem Blaeu. 1645, but perhaps editions 1648 or 1662. |
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Blaeu 1645 | |
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printed title
CUMBRIA; / vulgo / CUMBERLAND |
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| inscription:- |
printed rev, p.359
CUMBERLAND. / Cumbria ad Occasum praejacet Westmorlandiae, vulgo Cumberland, ultima in hac parte Angliae Provincia, .. |
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| scale line:- | 8 miles = 56.6 mm | |
| wxh, map:- | 497x410mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 230000 ? (1 to 227469 from scale line, wrongly assuming a statute mile) | |