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Title: England, Great Britain, 1632 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2013-11
  • Coverage: 1632

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: The kingdome of England., described by Christopher Saxton, augmented by John Speed ; Abraham Goos Amstelodamensis sculpsit Anno 1632. It was published by George Humble, cum Privilegio in 1632. Scale ca. 1:2,150,000. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'British National Grid' coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief and woodland shown pictorially. Map border includes vignettes of national costumed character types. Includes also pictorial representations of ships and marine animals, and catalogue of all the shires, cities, bishoprickes, market townes, castles, parishes, rivers, bridges, chases, forrests, and parkes conteyned in every pariticuler shire of the Kingdome of England. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Subjects

  • Boundaries
  • Transportation
  • United Kingdom
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Villages
  • Landforms
  • Bodies of water
  • Land use
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • Clothing and dress
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-9.65643, 5.037357, 56.178008, 49.543858)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-9.65643, 5.037357, 56.178008, 49.543858)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library, Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-, Humble, George, -1640., Speed, John, 1552?-1629., Goos, Abraham. England, Great Britain, 1632 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g5750-1632-s2

Format

GeoTIFF