Richard Blome (1621-1705) A Mapp of the County of Cornwall, ...

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Richard Blome (1621-1705) A Mapp of the County of Cornwall, with its Hundreds First state, double page copper engraved, small spot south of Botallack and in the margin, generally vg, leaf measures 32cm x 36cm, printed for Blome's Britannia, [Tho. Roycroft for the Undertaker Richard Blome, London, 1673]. 'There is little doubt that the Cornwall map here is derived or copied from Speed in its post1623 state. This can be confirmed by the simple expedient of considering the Latin inclusions at Land's End, Falmouth, the Lizard, Lostwithiel and Plymouth Sound' (Quixley & Quixley pp.50)

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