Blaeu 1645

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	item:- Kendal Library : Map 72
	Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoria Comitatus Anglice Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Johann Blaeu, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1645, Spanish edition 1672. From the Nuevo Atlas del Reyno de Inglaterra. The reverse is obscured by library mounting, but can be seen to be in Spanish, probably pp.291-292, p.291 is the start of Westmorland. As well as the royal arms of the Stuart period, there are coats of arms of Raphe Nevill, John Duke of Bedford, John Duke of Somerset, John de Foix, and of England.
		Blaeu 1645
	map feature:-	scroll cartouche (and cherubs with shuttles and shears) & coat of arms & swash lettering & labelled borders (Latin) & up is N & scale line (the cartouche decoration has a surveyor and assistant using a surveyor's chain) & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & bridges & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & forests & parks & county & settlements
	inscription:-	printed title cartouche, lower right WESTMORIA / COMITATUS; / Anglice / WESTMORLAND.
	inscription:-	printed below the scale line, lower left Quatuor Milliaria Anglica / sive unum Milliare Germanicum.
	scale line:-	6 miles = 60.2 mm (roughly)
	scale:-	1 to 160000 ? (1 to 160400 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile)
	wxh, sheet:-	57x45cm
	wxh, map:-	495x379mm

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