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private collection:-
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Map, hand coloured engraving, Modern Map of Hamp Shire ie Hampshire, scale
about 7 miles to 1 inch, published by Carington Bowles, St Paul's Churchyard,
and Robert Sayer, Fleet Street, London, after 1763.
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The map is a close copy, a new engraving, from the map by Thomas Kitchin,
published 1763.
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map feature:-
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title cartouche & monumental cartouche & compass rose & scale line
& lat and long scales & lat and long grid & table of symbols &
sea plain & coast shaded & castles & rivers & relief & hill
hachuring & woods & forests & parks & county & settlements
& roads |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche, upper left
A Modern MAP of / HAMP SHIRE, / Drawn from the / latest Surveys / Corrected
& Improv'd / by the best / Authorities.
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inscription:- |
printed -on- bottom
Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Churchyard, & Robt. Sayer in Fleet
Street.
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scale line:-
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10 miles = 37.5 mm |
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dimension:- |
wxh, map = 247x189mm (roughly) |
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scale = 1 to 430000 ? (1 to 429158 from scale line assuming modern mile) |
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Map Group -- Bowles 1763 -- with Research Notes
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| MN: 2.7.2004 |
