Map Collection

Badeslade 1742
FA1998.178:- 
Map, hand coloured engraving, chart of the Sea Coast of England and Wales, scale about 70 miles to 1 inch, by Thomas Badeslade, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, 1742.
The map is from the beginning of an atlas; it shows The German Ocean ie North Sea, English Channel, Irish Sea, and St Georges Channel, with headlands, harbours, sandbanks, fortifications, etc, a few towns are marked.
map feature:-  hand coloured & title cartouche (plain box) & compass rose & coast form lines & harbours
inscription:-  printed -on- title cartouche A CHART Shewing the / SEA CAST of / ENGLAND & WALES, / with ye Fortifications Royal / Docks, Harbours, Sands &c
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom T. Badeslade delin. / Publish'd by the Proprietor W H Toms Sept. 29. 1742. / W H Toms Sculpt.
dimension:-  scale = 1 to 4400000 ? (estimated)

  Map Group -- Badeslade 1742 -- with Research Notes

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MN: 12.7.2002