Morden's Map of British Islands Engraver(s)_Alessandro Specchi is by Permission humbly dedicated

is by Permission humbly dedicated by his obedient Servant Wm

the former still at this juncture nominally the seat of Napoleon’s brother Joseph

10th Lord Sinclair (1660–1723)

In the margin to the left of this map is an incomplete list of sultans of the Ottoman Empire

and it was largely thanks to John Ogilby’s influence that the Statute Mile was set at 1760 yards

Morden's Map of British Islands Engraver(s)_Alessandro Specchi is by Permission humbly dedicatedRobert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in 1722 and 1753. Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England. An illustrated edition of his work with maps by Kip and Hole was published in 1607, but by the late seventeenth century it had become scarce and expensive. Gibson completely revised the text and commissioned new