A Card, or platt, of all the shire townes in England, shewinge how farre they are distant one from another, & how scituate fro London, E.W.N. or Sth, wth a small Mapp of England ...
[Engraved by Jacob Florensz van Langren.] [n.d., c.1660.] Engraved distance chart and map, 240 x 210mm. 9½ x 8¼". A chart of the distances between certain towns in England and Wales. Plate from Matthew Simmons' 'A direction for the English traviller by which he shal be inabled to coast about all England and Wales. And also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any shire lyeth one from an other ... As also the distance betweene London and any other shire or great towne ...' Thomas Jenner, first published 1643. Shirley: 468, II of III.
[Bookseller: Grosvenor Prints]
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