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Research Notes
Map Group BLAEU 1639
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| Map, Hantonia? ie Hampshire, scale about 44 miles to 1 inch, by John Blaeu? published in Camden's Britannia, by William Blaeu, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1639. | |
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Published in 'Guili. Camdeni Viri Clarissimi Britannia, sive florentiss. Regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae ... Descriptio. In Epitomen contracta a Regnero Vitellio Zirizaeo, & tabulis Chorographicis illustrata. Amsterdami. Apud Guilielmum Blaeu, 1639.' |
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| The geography includes 458 pages of text with small maps in groups, Hampshire is probably included on the sheet with Cornwall, Devon, etc? there are maps of the whole country; the book size is 2 3/4 x 5 1/8 ins. | |
| The maps are similar in style to Keer's maps. | |
| scale line:- | 30 miles = 17 mm (11/16 ins) |
| dimension:- | scale = 1 to 2800000 ? (1 to 2764800 from scale line assuming a statute mile) |
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