Item details: A New Map of the Isle of Wight
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£ 95.00
LONDON MAGAZINE
A New Map of the Isle of Wight
Imprint: London, 1763
185 x 240 mm., in good condition.
A fine map engraved by Thomas Kitchin showing the Isle of Wight. It was published in the September 1763 issue of the 'London Magazine', a popular newspaper of the day. That issue recorded on p. 460 that 'We have obliged our readers this month with the annexed accurate and elegant Map of the Isle of Wight drawn from surveys, by Tho. Kitchin, geographer, which completes our sett of useful maps of England and Wales'. Jolly, D.C. (Brit Per) LOND-230.
Stock number:9709.