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Total number of records: 6

Count of Place

Place	Count
Middlesex (England)	1
Durham (England : County)	1
Great Britain	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Morden, Robert (1703)	1
Morden, Robert	1
Keere, Pieter Van Den (1571-1624)	1
Norden, John (1548-1625?)	1
Redmayne, W	1
Speed, John (1552?-1629)	1
Saxton, Christopher (1542-)	1
Keere, Pieter Van Den	1
Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612)	1
Greenwood, C (1786-1855)	1

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Earliest date	Count
From 1500	2
From 1600	3
From 1800	1

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1599	2
Up to 1699	3
Up to 1899	1

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Whitaker Collection 1 fol

[An atlas of the counties of England and Wales [cartographic material]

Saxton, Christopher (1542-)

[1579]

Consists of 45 coloured maps, variously dated from 1574 to 1579, which represent the earliest survey of England and Wales. There is one general map of England and Wales; 24 are maps of single counties...

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Whitaker Collection 351

Speculum Britanniae. The first parte an historicall, & chorographicall discription of Middlesex. Wherin are also alphabeticallie sett downe, the names of the cyties, townes, parishes hamletes, howses of name &c. W.th direction spedelie to finde anie place desired in the mappe & the distance betwene place and place without compasses. Cum priuilegio

Norden, John (1548-1625?); Keere, Pieter van den (1571-1624)

[1593]

This is the first part of an ambitious project to provide historical and general guides to every county, accompanied by an improved map of the same. The attempt however failed through lack of adequate...

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Whitaker Collection 37

[The 52 countries [sic] of England and Wales, described in a pack of cards]

Morden, Robert (1703)

[1676]

A second edition, in which each card showed the names of the adjoining counties, was issued later in the year 1676. A third edition was issued about 1680. Advantage was taken of the fact that there ...

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Whitaker Collection 379

Map of the county palatine of Durham [cartographic material] : from actual survey made in the years 1818 & 1819

Greenwood, C (1786-1855); Greenwood, Pringle & Co

1820

Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Shows wards. Includes view of the city of Durham.

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Whitaker Collection 39

[Recreative pastime by card-play; geographical, chronological, and historiographical, of England and Wales; shewing the commodities and rarities of each county. Very useful for all travellers]

Redmayne, W

[1676]

Advantage was taken of the fact that there are 52 counties in England and Wales and 52 cards in a pack. This series of playing-cards in exceedingly rare. The maps are tiny, nearly obliterated by t...

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Whitaker Collection 8 fol.

Theatrum Imperii Magnae Britanniae; exactam regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae et insularum adiacentium geographiam ob oculos proponens: una cum comitatibus, centurijs, urbibus et primarijs comitatuum oppidis, intra regnum. Angliae, divisis et descriptis

Speed, John (1552?-1629); Holland, Philemon (1552-1637); Camden, William (1551-1623); Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612)

Anno... 1616

Translated from John Speed's "The theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine" the text of which is largely taken from William Camden's Britannica. The maps are more or less unchanged from the edition o...