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Lot 464
By: Robert Morden
Subject: Berkshire, England
Date: 1722 (circa)
Publication: Britannia
Condition Code: B+
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Color: uncolored
Size: 16.5 x 14 inches
42.0 x 35.6 cm
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This county map of Berkshire shows the early road system and Windsor Castle at lower right. The map is divided into Hundreds and displays interesting detail including the locations of buildings, rivers, bridges and parks. There is an attractive drape-style cartouche and three distance scales. Sold by Abel Swale, Awnsham & John Churchil.
Morden was one of the first English cartographers to show longitudes measured from the meridian of St. Paul's Cathedral (shown in degrees at the bottom of the map) and time in minutes measure locally from the sun (shown at the top in Roman numerals). The roads on his maps are based on Ogilby's earlier survey. The Britannia was first published by historian William Camden (1551-1623) in 1586. After the publication of the final edition of Britannia in 1637, the work was not published again until 1695 when Gibson revised and translated the text from the original Latin and included fifty maps, mostly of the English counties, prepared by Robert Morden, replacing the outdated maps of Christopher Saxton. This map is from the subsequent edition of 1722.
Condition Description: There is some light offsetting and printer's ink residue in the image, else very good. A tiny tear in bottom blank margin has been closed on verso with old paper. Watermarked paper.
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