Keer 1605
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item:- Kendal Library : Map 36 |
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Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland and Cumberland,
scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, probably by Pieter van den
Keere, or Peter Keer, about 1605, published by Georg Humble,
ye Whit horse, Popeshead Alley, London 1620
Included in England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged ... from John Speed. The map title is translated from Latin; there is text on the reverse in English, part of the description of the county, abridged from Speed's atlas of 1611. |
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Keer 1605 | |
| map feature:- | scroll cartouche & labelled borders (Latin) & up is N & scale line & sea moire effect & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & county & settlements | |
| inscription:- |
printed title cartouche, lower right
Westmorland / and / Cumberland |
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| inscription:- |
printed with scale line
Scala Milliarum |
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| scale line:- | 10 miles = 15.5 mm | |
| inscription:- |
printed reverse
WESTMORLAND. / CHAPTER XL. / WESTMORLAND, by some late Latine Writers is called Westmaria, and Westmorlandia, by some later Westmoria, and in our English Tongue Westmorland. ... |
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| scale:- | 1 to 1000000 ? (1 to 1038286 from scale line) | |
| wxh, sheet:- | 13x8.5cm | |
| wxh, map:- | 122x84mm | |