Bradshaw’s 1845 Railway Map Printed Area Measurement_64 x 72 cm charged by the French king

charged by the French king with mapping the coasts of France first and then the rest of the world

late 19th century armorial bookplate of Ernest Hamilton Sharp to front pastedown (probably the Hong Kong-based barrister

and which Humble generally printed to coincide with editions of the larger atlas

published in Jubilee year and dedicated to Queen Victoria

first published in 1695 and reprinted in various eighteenth century editions

Bradshaw’s 1845 Railway Map Printed Area Measurement_64 x 72 cm charged by the French kingBradshaws map of the railways of England & Wales with part of Scotland, reduced from the highly accurate Ordnance Survey, presented to the subscribers to Bradshaws Railway Gazette This railway map was published in October 1845 as Railwaymania neared its peak: in 1846 272 Acts of Parliament setting up new railway companies were passed, with the proposed routes totalling 9,500 miles, a third of which were never built. Bradshaws railway maps and