Historians' guide to early British maps : a guide to the location of pre-1900 maps of the British Isles preserved in the United Kingdom and Ireland
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Historians' guide to early British maps : a guide to the location of pre-1900 maps of the British Isles preserved in the United Kingdom and Ireland
（Royal Historical Society guides and handbooks, no. 18）
Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The first guide to pre-1900 maps relating to Great Britain and Ireland: essays on different types of map are followed by a comprehensive guide to approx. 450 repositories.
This guide to pre-1900 maps relating to Great Britain and Ireland records for the first time the rich cartographic heritage of these islands. It thus responds to the increasing appreciation of maps as historical documents.
The Guideis divided into two sections. The first describes the history and purpose of maps in a series of short essays on the different types of regional and special maps. Part Two is a guide to the collections. It comprises a comprehensive survey of nearly 450 repositories, from the national libraries to the county record offices, and includes some of the private collections. There is a full record, for example, of the rich holdings of the Oxford and Cambridge colleges. Details are given on each institution's holdings, access, availability of originals, reproductions, indices. The Guideis the first of its kind, we believe, for any country. It should be of great practical value to a wide readership.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The history and purpose of maps: list of essays on regional and specialized maps
- editor's introduction
- essays on regional and specialized maps. Part 2 The repositories: sources of information for part 2
- note on stray manuscript maps
- maps in the colleges of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
- abbreviations
- old standards of length and map scales
- key to arrangement of entries
- the repositories - England, the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland.
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