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private collection:-
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Guide book, England, an Intended Guyde for English Travailers, by John
Norden, London, 1625.
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The book has a sheet for each county for a triangular table of distances with a
thumbnail map of the county in the spare triangular space. The map is very
small. There are also instructions for using the table; 'Invented by JOHN
NORDEN.'
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title page
England / AN / Intended Guyde, / For / English Travailers. / Shewing in
generall, how far one / Citie, & many Shire- Townes in England, are / distant
from other Together, with the / Shires in perticular: and the Cheife / Townes in
every of them. / With a generall Table, of the most of / the principall Townes
in Wales. / Invented & Collected, / by John Norden. / Voluntas pro facultate. //
Printed at London by Edward / All-de dwelling neare Christ- / Church 1625.
-- scroll cartouche with figures, one reading and one playing a lute, cherubs,
etc |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche, Hampshire table of distances
Hamshire
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dimension:- |
wxh, book = 18.5x25cm |
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Map Group -- Norden 1625 -- with Research Notes
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| MN: 16.12.2002 |
