Kitchin’s Miniature Map of Suffolk Printed Area Measurement_41.5 x 25.5 cm

Kitchin’s Miniature Map of Suffolk Printed Area Measurement_41.5 x 25.5 cmThis map of Sussex was first issued in The London Magazine, which between 1747 and 1754 published a complete set of English county maps by Thomas Kitchin. The maps were subsequently published as a pocket atlas and reissued as a set by Alexander Hogg in Boswell's Antiquities of England & Wales. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 15 x 20 cm, recent hand colour, blank verso.

The survey for this map was made on the outward voyage of Lord Macartney's embassy to China and shows the entrance to Turon Harbour – Da Nang in modern Vietnam – and the course of the brig HMS Jackall

In which are also contained

which was then engraved by Simon Novellanus and Frans Hogenburg

following Gastaldi

The map may have been printed as a supplement for a local newspaper

Some paper repairs to the folds of the larger maps

Summer 1925 issue of Betts’ 15 panel central area map of the London underground

Westminster

le 20e jour d’Aoust 1648

The early railways are prominent (coloured red) on these maps

often highly anecdotal and subjective

engraved by Delamare