Antique British Isles Map: Accuratissima Angliae Scotiae et Hiberniaedetails

Antique British Isles Map: Accuratissima Angliae Scotiae et Hiberniae [1744]

1744

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An engraved hand colored map of the British Isles, with coloured decorative cartouches and sailing ships. The map shows political and administrative divisions, cities and towns, place names, rivers and mountains.

Which is, in English, roughly,

The world atlas it came from was Atlas minor praecipua orbis terrarum imperia, Regna et Provincias, Germaniae Potissimum, tabellis 50 exacte declineatis sistens usui militiae ducum ac peregrinantium maxime accomodatus opera Matthaei Seutteri, Sac. Caes. Maj. Geogr. Aug. Vind. Jacob Christoph Weyerman ... Cum Privileg: S.R.I. Vicariat. in part: Rheni, Franc: et Suev Juris. Martin Gottfried Crophius Sculps., 1744

In the Original scan it appears that the blue ink has considerably degraded, a common problem with older pigments. But you can see it if you squint.

map, ships, boats, angels

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289 dots per inch (approximately)