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WALES102 - A. BELL "A Plan of Milford Haven in Pembroke Shire" Edin. 1758. Colored outlines. 4X7. From the Scot's Magazine. Attractive little map shows Milford Haven & the river (to Haverford West) with many branches. Locates Pembroke, Barnlake, Burton Church. Coshaston, Newton, Bangeston, Dale, & the ruins of the Nangle Blockhouse. Map has a table from a.-g. listing gun batteries with numbers of men and a place proposed for a floating battery. Decorative title cartouche of leaf s scroll motif. 

WALES107 - OWEN & BOWEN "A Map of Cardiganshire and the Road from London to Aberistwith" London. c. 1721. 7X4½. Colored. Decorative miniature early road map shows Aberistwith, Cardigan & Cardigan Bay & Cardigan Island. All principal market towns, roads, rivers, lakes s hills. On the back (verso) is a strip road map from London (with a block plan of the City) showing the route from London to Beaconsfield via Acton & Uxbridge. Route shows towns and villages, bridges, churches, wooded areas to be encountered along the way, plus a compass rose for direction. Includes the armorial shields of the Deanery of Westminster, the Arms of London, Southwark s Uxbridge. Map face is topped with a distance scale surrounded by a fruit & scroll motif. 

WALES108 - UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE "A New & Accurate Map of North Wales, Drawn from a late Survey" London. 1766. 7X9¼. Attractive map shows Anglesea, Carnarvon Shire, Denbighshire, Merioneth Sh. Montgomery Sh. Radnor Shire with all principal market towns & villages. Post-roads, mountains, hills & rivers. Locates coastal harbors, Carnarvon Bay, Cardigan Bay, Aberistwith, Barmouth Bay, St. George's Channel, Great Ormes Head the River Dee. Title is in a decorative cartouche with leaf & scroll motif. 

WALES110 - A. FULLARTON "North Wales" Glasgow 1836. Colored. 7X9. Nicely engraved map shows counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, Denbigh,Flint Merioneth, Montgomery with principal towns & villages & harbors. Locates Cardigan & Caernarvon Bays; Liverpool & the Mersey River, the River Dee, Bangor, Holyhead Bay, Barmouth, Aberystwith, Harlech, Llanerchymedd, Denbigh, Llanfyllin Dolgelly, Welshpool, Chester and many more. Shows Mt. Snowdon, hills, parks, rivers & post roads. Includes very decorative engraved view of Conway Castle. 

WALES111 - F. J. VON REILLY “Das Furstenthum Wales. Nro 85.” Wien (Vienna) 1789-90. Colored. 8X10½. This beautiful 18th century map of Wales by Franz Johann Joseph Von Reilly, an art dealer, mapmaker and publisher of Vienna, Austria, shows counties, cities, towns, harbors, rivers, castles and bays. Depicts the island of Anglesey off the northern coast and also shows the Isle of Man in an inset in top left. The title is on a banner draped over a pedestal with broken column and decorated with leaves and flowers. From “Schauplatz der funf Thiele der Welt nach und zu Anton Friederich Buschings grosser Erd beschreibung, Vienna. 1789-1806.” A very attractive map. (Reilly's maps were produced weekly making a total of 830 maps in all. This map is number 85.) Ref. Tooley's Dictionary of Maps and Mapmakers. Vol.4 page 28. 

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