Blaeu 1645
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item:- Carlisle Library : Map 56 |
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Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoria Comitatus Anglice
Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Johann
Blaeu, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1645, Latin edition 1645,
1648 or 1662.
From Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus; there is text in Latin on the reverse, pp.357, 358. |
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Blaeu 1645 | |
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printed title cartouche, lower right
WESTMORIA / COMITATUS; / Anglice / WESTMORLAND. |
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| inscription:- |
printed below the scale line, lower left
Quatuor Milliaria Anglica / sive unum Milliare Germanicum. |
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| inscription:- |
printed rev
cum Directorum Numero egisse. Nunc vero ipsum oppidum in tenuem vicum exiguo propugnaculo munitum, & nomen in Burgh abiit ... |
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| scale line:- | 6 miles = 60.0 mm | |
| wxh, map:- | 498x381mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 160000 ? (1 to 160934 from scale line, wrongly assuming a statute mile) | |