Ogilby's Road from Oakham to Barnsley Bremen showing regional costume

showing regional costume

somewhat browned

Rome Ancienne

a pocket atlas first published in 1706 which covered the major theatres of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714

Ogilby's Road from Oakham to Barnsley Bremen showing regional costumeThe Extended Road from Oakham to Richmond commencing at Oakham aforesaid & extending to Barnsley in Yorkshire This map was published as sheet 48 in the 1698 folio edition of Ogilbys pioneering road atlas, the Britannia. Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for the project, smaller towns appeared in detail for the first time, and it was largely thanks to Ogilbys influence that the Statute Mile was set at 1760 yards. Ogilby devised the project late