London strip maps from Devonshire to Cornwall c1757. Senex/Ogilby

by Ogilby - Senex

18th century Road Map from Devonshire to Cornwall: through Axminster, Offwell, Honiton, Rockbore, Honiton Clift, Exeter, Chedleigh, Ashburton, Dean, Brent, Plymouth, and across the Tamar to Tragantha. the previous map is the reverse side of this one. It is the road from Andover, though Salisbury, Shaftsbury, Milbourn Port, Sherborn, Evil or Yeovil, Crookhorn and beyond. (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).