Badeslade & Toms’ Map of Middlesex Printed Area Measurement_18 x 30.5 cm The survey for this map

The survey for this map was made on the outward voyage of Lord Macartney's embassy to China and shows the entrance to Turon Harbour – Da Nang in modern Vietnam – and the course of the brig HMS Jackall

John Waters Coldicott also appears to be responsible for adding co-ordinates of the Saint Malo light by hand on page xv

This map of Eastern Friesland is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri

as he appears in Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers

la géographie moderne et les cartes relatives à la géographie physique’

Badeslade & Toms’ Map of Middlesex Printed Area Measurement_18 x 30.5 cm The survey for this mapThis map of Middlesex was engraved by Toms for Thomas Badeslades Chorographia Britanniae, an attractive pocket atlas which according to Badeslade himself was originally compiled for the use of George I. The panel on the left contains a wealth of local detail such as fairs and market days, the number of MPs returned to parliament and information about significant rivers. The atlas was first published in 1742, but additional roads were added a couple of