Images Dated 5th November 2020

Views on the London to Birmingham Railway - Railway Bridge at Rugby 1839

A finely detailed facimile remastered in full colour from an antique original map of "Dumbartonshire" featured in A&C Black's Atlas of 1847. Each Parish is numbered using an index table, colour rendition beautifully differentiating all of the Parishes. As well as principal roads, towns, villages and hamlets, these county maps of Scotland feature key battle sites marked with two crossed swords and the date of the battle. Dumbarton comes from the Scottish Gaelic D?n Breatainn meaning "fort of the Britons". ... Dumbartonshire County Council, set up under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, adopted the spelling "Dunbartonshire" by 1914, a fact recognised by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

Old County Map of Shropshire 1836 by Thomas Moule

This is a fine decorative reproduction County Map of Shropshire from the First Edition series of Thomas Moule Maps, originally Published in 1836. The well-known series of County Maps which are known as Moules feature beautiful vignette views and were first published in separate sections for each county in 1830-32, they were then published in collected form in a two-volume work: The English Counties Delineated: or a Topographical Description of England: Illustrated by a Complete Series of County Maps by Thomas Moule: London: Published by George Virtue 1836

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Old County Map of Cumbria 1648 by Johan Blaeu from the Atlas Novus

This detailed and most attractive reproduction map of Cumbria has been carefully art worked from a scan of an antique original. The famous firm of Dutch cartographers and publishers was established in the late 16th century by Willem Janszoon Blaeu in Amsterdam. Blaeu was a maker of globes and scientific instruments and purchased some of his early map plates from Jodocus Hondius. From this small beginning was to emerge one of the largest and most prolific map publishing houses of the seventeenth century