"Suffolk", Morden, Robert

Morden's map of Suffolk is divided into "Hundreds" (abbreviated Hun on the map), an old English term for an area that would support a hundred families. It is filled with interesting detail including the locations of buildings, rivers and bridges and parks. 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 measured locally from the sun (shown at the top). 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the original Latin and included fifty maps, mostly of the English counties, prepared by Robert Morden, replacing the outdated maps of Christopher Saxton.

References: Shirley (BL Atlases) T.CAMD-5a.

Condition: B+

A nice impression with attractive color. Trimmed to neatlines at left, top and right, with some loss of neatline at bottom left.