Ordnance Map - Balsams

Publication Date: 1896

About this Item

Linen-backed ordnance map depicting the country northeast of Saffron Walden, England. Map measures 41" x 40 ¾", is hand-colored and housed in original 6" x 7" slipcase. Published and engraved at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, revised in 1894, and published by Colonel J. Farquharson in 1896. Edward Stanford's seller label tipped onto map, and title label and info about Stanford's shop tipped onto slipcase. Edward Stanford was a prominent British mapmaker and publisher, active from the 1850s to his death in 1904. Contemporary ink on title label reading "Balsams" (maybe Balshams misspelled?) , penciled lettering "Saffron Walden" also on title label, and "Saffron Walden" also written on one edge of slipcase. Overall good. Map has light wear, foxing, and soiling; previous owner's bookplate tipped onto map, on verso. Slipcase has moderate wear, soiling and dampstaining. This map depicts the towns of Haverhill in the northeast, High Ongar in the Southeast, St. Albans in the Southwest, and Roxton in the Northwest. The hand-coloring is still bright and a radius denoting mileage is at the center of the map. The map features homes, farms, churches, windmills, railways, metalled and unmetalled roads, footpaths, mineral lines, tramways, letterboxes, contour and county lines.

Seller Inventory # 021719

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ordnance Map - Balsams
• Publication Date: 1896
• Condition: Good