Greenwood’s Map of Middlesex Engraver(s)_Thomas Starling Martino Martini (1614-1661) was a

Martino Martini (1614-1661) was a Jesuit missionary who reached China in 1642 and amassed a considerable library of Chinese books and maps

This ward plan of Cheap was published in the greatly expanded second edition of Maitland’s History of London

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Greenwood’s Map of Middlesex Engraver(s)_Thomas Starling Martino Martini (1614-1661) was aMap of the County of Middlesex from an Actual Survey The Greenwood brothers were land surveyors from Yorkshire who compiled one of the last independent large scale county atlases, in the teeth of competition from the Ordnance Survey. The maps are both decorative and detailed but, as Worms reveals in British Map Engravers the project was not a financial success: in 1834 Christopher was imprisoned for debt and the engraved plates soon passed to other