Ordnance Map - The Country around Saffron Walden

Erscheinungsdatum: 1896

Beschreibung

Linen-backed ordnance map depicting the area around Saffron Walden of England. Map measures 28 ½" X 41", is hand-colored, and is housed in original 7" x 4 ¾" slipcase. Published and engraved at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, in 1886, revised in 1893, and published by Colonel J. Farquharson in 1896. Edward Stanford's label tipped onto map, and title label and information about Stanford's shop tipped onto slipcase. Edward Stanford was a prominent British mapmaker and publisher, active from the 1850s to his death in 1904. Previous owner has written "Ickleton" and "G. B. 1897" on title label, and "Saffron Walden" has been written on two sides of the slipcase. Overall good. Map has light wear, foxing, and soiling; R. H. Johnstone's bookplate tipped onto map, on verso. Slipcase has moderate wear, soiling and dampstaining. A detailed map showing homes, farms, churches, windmills, railways, metalled and unmetalled roads, footpaths, mineral lines and tramways, letterboxes and contour lines. ; 28 ½" X 41". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 021717

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Titel: Ordnance Map - The Country around Saffron ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 1896

Zustand: Good