Chelmsford to Malden, Raleigh, Essex, Gravesend, Kent, Dover, c1757

$125.00

Antique Road Maps by Ogilby updated by Senex: From Chelmsford to Maldon; Chelmsford to Raleigh; Chelmsford to BiIlericay, Horndon, Gravesend; Canterbury to Sandwich and Deal; Deal to Dover.
On the reverse (next item for same purchase) are early strip maps for The roads from Chelmsford in Essex to St EdmunBury in Suffolk & Saffron-Waldon in Essex, Containing from Chelmfford to Braintry, Halsted, Sudbury, Lavenham, Bury St. Edmunds; Chelmsford to Dunmow, Thaxted and Saffron Waldon.

These road maps are original copperplate engravings by John Senex c1757 after John Ogilby (with fine later hand-colour), for The Roads through England Delineated, or Ogilby’s Survey, Revised, Improved & Reduced to a Size Portable for the Pocket by John Senex, F.R.S. Being an Actual Survey of all the Principal Roads of England, and Wales, Distinctly laid down on one hundred & one Copper Plates on which are delineated all the cities, Towns, villages, Hills, Rivers, Brooks, Churches, capital Seats, and every place worthy of Note, throughout each ROAD; WITH The Addition of some roads newly drawn, which were omitted by Mr Ogilby, and Several necessary Corrections made in others; Together with a great number of explanatory references, by which this Edition of the Roads is render'd of more general Use for TRAVELLERS. – Printed for John Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill London 1757.

Please note there is damage to the right-hand edge of this map – as shown with black behind to highlight (price adjusted). Approximate size of this map is 17 x 22cm (6 x 8.5 inches).