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A collection of engraved maps of Great Britain, England, Scotland and Ireland

Gough Maps British Isles 3-4, 13, 12-15; Gough Maps Great Britain 1-2, 12-19; Gough Maps Scotland

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Title

A collection of engraved maps of Great Britain, England, Scotland and Ireland

Shelfmark

Gough Maps British Isles 3-4, 13, 12-15; Gough Maps Great Britain 1-2, 12-19; Gough Maps Scotland

Summary

A collection of engraved maps of Great Britain, England, Scotland and Ireland, including coasts, canals, and other general maps (not of counties or particular places), with the following manuscript pieces among others (in the order in which they occur):

Two drafts of W. Stukeley's 'Mappa Britanniæ faciei Romanæ', probably both by the author, one signed by him (Gough Maps British Isles 14-15)

A third draft of the same by Carolus Bertramus, 1747 (Gough Maps British Isles 12)

A copy by W. Stukeley (1750) of the map of Britain and Ireland in the 1482 (Ulm) edition of Ptolemy (Gough Maps British Isles 3)

An engraved copy of (a) (above) by C. Bertramus, on the back of a manuscript letter from him to Stukeley, 16 Oct. 1755 (Gough Maps British Isles 13)

A copy by Henry Peters of the map of Britain in the 1540 (Bâle) edition of Ptolemy in Latin (Gough Maps British Isles 4)

A copy by Stukeley (1720) of Britain in the Peutinger Table (Gough Maps Great Britain 1)

A map by Stukeley (1724) of Britain in the Antonine Itinerary [Now shelfmarked as Gough Maps British Britain 2]

A draft of the old map of Britain (MS. Gough Gen. Top. 16, below), made in 1774 (?), with several proofs of the engraved map (Gough Maps Great Britain 12-19)

A copy of the map of Scotland in 'Arch. Seld. B. 10', olim 26 (O. C. 3356) (Gough Maps Scotland 1)

Date

c. 16th-18th century

Language

English

Physical extent

1 volume

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