Greenwood’s Map of North Wales Mapmaker(s)_Claudius Ptolemy Town views and plans were

Town views and plans were all taken from direct observation rather than improvised in the manner of some earlier geographical works - it had not been unknown for the same view to appear in more than one guise

A second edition appeared in 1774 under the joint imprint of Jefferys and William Faden

Cairo was one of the great trading centres of the early modern world

Our copy of Kimball’s work bears the ownership inscription of F

Greenwood’s Map of North Wales Mapmaker(s)_Claudius Ptolemy Town views and plans wereMap of the North West Circuit of the Principality of Wales, comprising the Counties of Anglesey, Caernarfon & Merioneth, from an Actual Survey The Greenwood brothers were land surveyors from Yorkshire who compiled one of the last independent large scale county atlases, in the teeth of competition from the Ordnance Survey. The maps, like this one of North Wales (with black and white vignette of Bangor Cathedral), are both decorative and detailed. Alas,