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<div>&lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://librarysearch.cardiff.ac.uk/permalink/f/1tfrs8a/44CAR_ALMA2171750080002420">https://librarysearch.cardiff.ac.uk/permalink/f/1tfrs8a/44CAR_ALMA2171750080002420</a>" rel="nofollow"&gt;Link to full catalogue record&lt;/a&gt;.</div><div><br></div>1 atlas ([1] leaf, [6] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 22 cm.<div><div><br></div><div>John Aston active 17th century, former owner.</div><div>Thomas Jenner -1673, bookseller.</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>From the Cardiff Rare Books Collection.</div><div>Bookplate of Cardiff Public Libraries Reference Library on front pastedown.</div><div>Signature of 'Jo. Aston' on front flyleaf.</div><div>Manuscript note on first map verso "Gen. Aston one of the generals in the times of Charles in whose [hands ?] was this book"</div><div>Counties covered by each map added in manuscript to map verso</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>Folded as a pocket atlas.</div><div>On the title page, "W. Hollar, fecit" appears below the imprint.</div><div>Place of publication taken from title proper.</div><div>Also known as 'The quartermaster's map'</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>Title page damaged and repaired with no loss of text.</div><div>Hand-coloured maps.</div></div><div><br></div><div>The kingdome of England, &amp; principality of Wales, exactly described whith every sheere, &amp; the small townes in every one of them in six mappes, portable for every mans pocket, the first beginning in Scotland &amp; one sheere in England, Northumberland, &amp; so to Newcastle; the second hath his head at Newcastle &amp; extendeth it selfe, all Durham, Westmoreland, Cumberland, Yorkeshire, Lancastshire &amp; part of Lincolne shire; the third hath Norfolke, Suffolke, Cambridge, Bedford, Hartford, Buckingham, Oxford, Northampton, Warwicke, Huntington, Lecester &amp; Rutland, parte of Lincolne, Nottingham, Darby, Glocester, Barkeshire &amp; Essex; the fourth map runnes it selfe, all Shropshire, Cheshire, Stafford, Wocester, Heriford most of Wales, Anglesey, &amp; part of Pembroke shire; the fift [sic] map, houldeth the south of Wales &amp; Gloster, Somerset, dorset, Devon, &amp; Cornwall, part of Wiltshire; the sixth mappe containes, Kent, Southsex, Surrey, Middlesex, Barke, &amp; Hampshire, part of Essex, &amp; Wiltshire, the small prikes boundeth every shire. Usefull for all com[m]anders for quarteringe of souldiers, &amp; all sorts of persons, that would be informed, where the armies be; never so commodiously drawne before this, 1644</div>
<br>Subjects: Cardiff Rare Books; atlas</div>
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Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677</div>
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