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No Binding. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Listing Template 2018 Home About Us View Feedback Contact Us 1722 Original Antique Map - DEVONSHIRE DEVON by Robert Morden HAND COLOURDescription1722Original Antique Map titled DEVONSHIREA fine and rare Copper Engraved original antique Map with decorative Cartouche and enhanced with later hand colouring, by Robert Morden.ConditionOverall in excellent condition and central fold as issued. Overall size approx 50cm x 39cm with good large margins, perfect for mounting framing.WE ONLY SELL ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAPS AND PRINTS AND NEVER SELL REPRODUCTIONS.All our items are original Antiques and as described.We provide a No Quibble Money Back Guarantee View Our Categories Decorative Prints World Wide Maps Scotland Maps Architecture Design England Maps Royalty About UsWe specialise in selling all items that can be considered to be Antique Paper. * PRINTS * MAPS * HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS * POSTAL HISTORY * BOOKS * POSTERS * STAMPS * POSTCARDS * EPHEMERA And anything else that is considered Antique and made of Paper. ALL OF OUR ITEMS ARE ORIGINAL ANTIQUES - NOT MODERN COPIES. We are also very keen buyers of anything similar and especially after better collections, original archives, whole libraries and better single items and have and#163;250,000 in cash funds at anyone time to buy the right items. Contact UsIf you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us through the eBay messaging system. Feedback We will always help you to have a 100% positive happy buying experience. Contact us if you are unhappy about any aspect of your purchase from us. We only want five star feedback from you so buy with confidence.

Original antique mapDEVONSHIREBy Robert Morden. Published in Camden's Britannia by Abel Swale, Awnsham and John Churchill, London 1695A fine copper engraved original antique county map of Devon, England. A highly detailed map with decorative title cartouche and scales of great, middle and small miles.  An excellent example greatly enhanced with attractive later hand colouring.Fine, clean condition other than some chipping to the upper margin, reinforced verso and not affecting the printed area. Centre fold as issued.Approx. 16.5" x 14" (420mm x 360mm) map area only, with good margins beyond. Printed on hand laid paper which remains stable and robust, blank verso.  Please see also close up images.The "Geography Rectified" pocket world atlas was Robert Morden's earliest important work published in 1688 with a few later editions up to c1700.  His best known work however, was the series of English county maps he produced to illustrate the Edmund Gibson editions of Camden's Britannia, published in 1695 and again in 1722, with several further rarer editions up to 1772.  A series of smaller county maps were published in 1701 and later. No extensive survey was carried out as such but the previous Saxton & Kip (or Hole) maps were updated by whatever information could be found. Morden also produced a variety of other cartographic works including globes, geographical playing cards and large scale maps, notably of London.A GENUINE ANTIQUE MAP GUARANTEED OVER 300 YEARS OLD FROM LINDISFARNE PRINTSD426Y.