Details

Subject(s)

• Roads—England—Norfolk—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Willsie, Bruce C., 1957- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—England—Norfolk—1675 [Browse]
• Strip maps—England—Norfolk—1675 [Browse]

Related work(s)

Ogilby, John, 1600-1676. Britannia. [Browse]

Notes

• Relief shown pictorially and with hachures.
• Strip map, showing road in 6 segments, with numbered distances along road.
• "Containing 69 miles, 4 furlongs, vizt.: From the market place in Kings-Lyn to Gayton ... to Mileham ... to Billingford ... to the city of Norwich ... to Hadsko ... to Yarmouth ..."
• From: Britannia, volume the first, or, An illustration of the Kingdom of England and dominion of Wales. London : Printed by the author ..., 1675.
• Includes coat of arms and other ill.
• Plate is unnumbered, indicating it is probably from the 1st ed., 1st issue of Britannia. cf. M. Schuchard, a descriptive bibliography of the works of John Ogilby and William Morgan.

Source acquisition

Historic Maps copy is gift of Bruce Willsie.

References

• Harold Whitaker collection of county atlases, road-books & maps 240
• Schuchard, M. Descriptive bibliography of the works of John Ogilby 31a

OCLC

192102463

International Standard Recording Code

• HM2008-26

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