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Mr. Philip D. Burden
P.O. Box 863,
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks HP6 9HD,
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0) 1494 76 33 13
Email: enquiries@caburden.com
The first printed map of the county in the first state. Saxton had this map engraved in 1577 as dated, but the atlas was not completed until 1579. An instant success the plate was issued for over 120 years. Hodson 1.1; Shannon & Winstanley ‘Lord Burghley’s Map of Lancashire Revisited, c.1576-1590’, in ‘Imago Mundi’ 59 Part 1 pp. 24-42; Saunders p. 15; Skelton 1.
SAXTON, Christopher
Lancastriae Comitatus Palatin Vera et Absoluta Descriptio Anno Dm 1577
London, 1577-[79]
400 x 500 mm., early wash colour, some light offsetting, overall a nice example.
Stock number: 3939
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