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1 item extracted from SP 80/124. Map of central and south-eastern Europe, in three...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/896
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This record is about the 1 item extracted from SP 80/124. Map of central and south-eastern Europe, in three... dating from [?1730] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- [?1730]
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1 item extracted from SP 80/124. Map of central and south-eastern Europe, in three sheets joined: 'Danubii Fluminis (à fontibus prope Doneschingam usq: Posonium urbem designati) Pars Superior ...'; 'Danubii Fluminis (ab urbe Lentia usq: et ultra Bydenam urbem cum influentibus fluviis delineati) Pars Media ...'; 'Danubii Flumini (hic ab urbe Belgrado per Mare Nigrum usq: Constantinopolim defluentis exhibiti) Pars Infima ...'. Shows area from eastern France to the Black Sea, between latitudes 41°40'N and 49°40'N. Titles in upper margin. Scale: 5.5 cm to 15 common German miles; scale bars also in Hungarian, Italian and French miles. Compass indicators. 'A Joh. Bapt. Homanno S.C.M. Geographo Norimbergae. Cum Privilegio Sac. Caes. Majestatis'. This may be the edition published in 1730. Endorsed: 'In M r. Robinson's of 24 th Nov r. [1736]'. A similar map in three sheets with a title in French was published by Homann in about 1720. Dimensions of sheets: each about 47 cm x 55 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Latin
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 92.
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