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William Smith 1815 Geological Map of England and Wales with Part of Scotland (Reproduction) (Sheet map, flat)
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William Smith 1815 Geological Map of England and Wales with Part of Scotland (Reproduction) (Sheet map, flat)
Series: Miscellaneous Maps & Books
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List price R455
Loot Price R299
Discovery Miles 2 990
You Save R156 (34%)
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Original Title: A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales
with part of Scotland; exhibiting the collieries and mines, the
marshes and fen lands originally overflowed by the sea, and the
Varieties of Soil according to the variations in the Substrata,
illustrated by the most Descriptive Names by W Smith.William
Smith's famous 1815 geological map of 'England and Wales with part
of Scotland' was issued between 2nd Nov 1815 and 17th Dec 1815. The
map was the subject of Simon Winchester's book: The Map that
Changed the World. The original map was never published as a single
sheet: the large size of the original, and the size of the printing
presses in the early 19th century, meant that it had to be
published in fifteen sections, each folded into six 'panels'. This
reproduction was produced by scanning the original panels held in
the BGS Library, and digitally removing the joins. At its original
scale of five miles to the inch, the map would have been eight feet
long by six feet wide (if it had been published as a single sheet):
this version is published at half scale: ten miles to the inch, and
is colour-matched to the original.
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