Verkäufer Altea Antique Maps, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 26. Juni 2014
Beschreibung
London, c.1675, second state. Coloured. 330 x 445mm. Repaired tear in margin. The complete route, via Banbury, & Ashby-de-la-Zouche. Plate 82 of Ogilby's 'Britannia', the first national road-atlas of any country in Western Europe. It was composed of maps of seventy-three major roads and cross-roads, presented as trompe-l' il scrolls, each with a decorative title cartouche. It was the first English atlas on a uniform scale, at one inch to a mile, and the 'mile' Ogilby used became the national standard, the statute mile of 1,760 yards. Ogilby claimed that 26,600 miles of roads were surveyed in the course of preparing the atlas, on foot using the surveyor's wheel depicted in the cartouche, but only about 7,500 were actually depicted in print. It was only after the 'Britannia' that roads started being shown on county maps. Second state, with plate number bottom right. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 15299
Bibliografische Details
Titel: The Road from Oxford to Coventry continued ...
Erscheinungsdatum: 1675
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