Stanford's Library Map of London, Northeastern Sheet Mapmaker(s)_John Ainslie Distinctive features of English county

Distinctive features of English county cartography (such as the enclosures) were retained

printed in colours on rayon

This is a British chart of Jiaozhou Bay on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula

all in all making the Theatre a highly decorative as well as a useful volume

Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is generally considered the first modern atlas of the world

Stanford's Library Map of London, Northeastern Sheet Mapmaker(s)_John Ainslie Distinctive features of English countyThis is the North Eastern sheet of Stanfords Library Map, extending as far east as Straford and West Ham; further sheets were available to extend coverage as far as Greenwich. Our example is probably a variant of Hydes 10th state of the map: Liverpool Street station is shown (opened 1874) but the publishers address has not been updated. Stanford's Library Map has been described by bibliographer Ralph Hyde as unquestionably the most detailed and useful