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Early printed maps
Description
Hand coloured, framed and glazed map of Warwickshire by Emmanuel Bowen. Beside the map are engraved topographical notes and the arms of Henry Rich, Earl of Warwick. Above the map, in an ornamental border is a table of distances on 'The Road form Oxford to Coventry Continued to Derby' Published in 'Britannia depicta or Ogilby improv'd', a popular reduced version of John Ogilby's road atlas augmented by fifty-four county maps and historical notes by John Owen
