London road from Hampshire through Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Somersetshire. Senex/Ogilby c1757.

by Ogilby - Senex

18th century Ogilby Strip Maps of the road from Andover, though Salisbury, Shaftsbury, Milbourn Port, Sherborn, Evil or Yeovil, Crookhorn and beyond. The next map is the reverse side, and has the road from Devonshire to Cornwall: through Axminster, Offwell, Honiton, Rockbore, Honiton Clift, Exeter, Chedleigh, Ashburton, Dean, Brent, Plymouth, and across the Tamar to Tragantha. (Both these maps, for this price.) 

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 whicvh 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.

Approximate size of this map is 17 x 22cm (6 x 8.5 inches).