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FA2002.23:-
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Map, uncoloured engraving, Hamp Shire ie Hampshire, scale about 6.5 miles to
1 inch, by Herman Moll, included in a New Description of England, published
1724.
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This copy has engravings of antiquities printed in a column down each side of
the page, outside the map; these pictures include figures of Mercuris, Bacchus,
Pallas and Virgo Vestalis, and a coin of Emperor Alaxeander Augustus, and a
saxon coin of Edgar minted at Winchester.
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map feature:-
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not coloured & title cartouche & scale line & up is N & lat and
long scales & table of hundreds & sandbanks & coast shaded &
coastal defence & castles & rivers & relief & hillocks &
forests & parks & county & hundreds & settlements &
roads |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche
HAMP SHIRE / By / H. Moll Geographer.
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scale line:-
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6 miles = 26.4 mm |
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dimension:- |
wxh, sheet = 36x23.5cm |
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wxh, plate = 317x195mm |
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wxh, map = 259x188mm |
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scale = 1 to 370000 ? (1 to 365760 from scale line assuming a statute mile) |
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Map Group -- Moll 1724 -- with Research Notes
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| MN: 22.10.2002 |
