ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAP OF DURHAM - IN VERY GOOD CONDITION SOME WEAR / SMALL TEAR AT BOTTOM  - SEE PHOTOS 

Antique copper plate engraving printed on laid paper

SIZE :  printed area is approximately 36.5 x 41.5 cm (14.25 x 16.25 inches) + MARGIN 



Produced for the 1695 edition of William Camden’s “Britannia”, when they were first published these county maps were advertised as being “much the fairest and most correct of any that have yet appear’d”. Decorative title cartouche and scale bars. From the 1695 edition of Camden's Britannia & was the first edition to contain Robert Morden's beautiful county maps. Morden went to considerable trouble to make them as accurate as possible, and they were the first county maps to include roads.