Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc
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map type:- Hondius 1616 |
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Map, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc, scale about
45 miles to 1 inch, and Northumbria, Cumberlandia, Dunelm
Episcopi, by Jodocus Hondius the younger, 1616.
Reduced by Jodocus Hondius from his versions of the maps first drawn by Gerhard Mercator 1595., and published by him in the 3rd, enlarged edn of a miniature world atlas by Petrus Bertius, Petrii Bertii Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum Libri Septem, 1616. Published by William Blaeu, Amsterdam. Netherlands, 1639. Included in a version of Britannia by William Camden, abridged by Regner Vitellus. |
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(example JandmN(329))
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| map feature:- | strapwork cartouche & labelled borders (Latin) & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & sea moire effect & sandbanks & coast shaded & rivers & relief & hillocks & county & settlements | |
| inscription:- |
printed title cartouche, upper left
Westmorla~d : / Lancastria / Cestria etc. |
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| wxh, sheet:- | 14x13cm | |
| wxh, map:- | 134x95mm | |
| inscription:- |
printed with scale line
Miliaria Anglica. |
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| scale line:- | 30 miles = 16.9 mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 2900000 ? (1 to 2856824 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile) | |
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| sources:- |
JandMN Collection Skelton 1970 |
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| items seen (illustrated items in bold):- | ||
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JandMN (329) -- map -- Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc -- Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire, etc | |