Items (529 total)
Silver Jubilee, 1977, of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: presentation folder for the schoolchildren of Exeter containing copies of Richard Izack's 1677 map of Exeter and Miss P.V.Pitman's etching of the Guildhall
This presentation folder was gifted to the schoolchildren of Exeter in 1977 to mark the Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. It included a modern copy of a map of Exeter originally engraved by Richard Izacke in 1677. Izacke's map was based…
"Geographia" Large Scale Street Plan of Exeter
Folded street plan, showing roads, footpaths, places of interest and an index to streets. In red printed card cover.
Bacon's Large-Scale Plan of Exeter, with Street Index
Folded chromo-lithograph plan of Exeter in red printed card cover.
Exeter
Framed colour plan of Exeter, drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. The plan is decorated with illustrations of the Guildhall, Exeter Cathedral, Northern Hay, the Post Office and St. Sidwells, drawn and engraved by Henry Winkles.
Plan of Exeter from actual Survey
This detailed plan of Exeter was produced by John Wood for the Improvement Commissioners in the late 1830s. It shows individual plots, as well as ward and parish boundaries.
The City of Exeter 1835
Town plan of Exeter on paper, engraved by William Schmollinger, with illustrations of St. Peter's Cathedral, the Guildhall, the Castle, and the Exe Bridge by R. Brown. Includes a reference table featuring public buildings and the parishes, churches…
Map of Exeter in 1832: Shewing the localities where the Deaths caused by Pestilential Cholera occurred in the years 1832, 1833, & 1834
A modern copy of a map by Dr. Thomas Shapter, printed in 'The History of the Cholera in Exeter in 1832' (1849). The first cholera outbreak reached England in the autumn of 1831 and arrived in Exeter in July 1832. Horizontal bars (1832), diamonds…
Exeter
Framed plan of Exeter showing the existing boundaries (in green) and the proposed boundary changes (in yellow), produced by Lieutenant Robert Kearsley Dawson, Royal Engineers. This plan was the result of the Reform Bill of 1831 and the Boundaries Act…
Exeter
Plan of Exeter, engraved by John Roper under the direction of J. Britton from a drawing by I. Hayman. This plan was removed from 'The British Atlas...' (1810) by G. Cole and J. Roper. It was originally engraved in 1805 and printed in 'The Beauties of…
Plan of the City & Suburbs of Exeter
Framed plan of Exeter, engraved by Thomas Yeakell. The plan was published by Charles Tozer on 20 April 1792. It includes a key to the churches in Exeter in the upper right corner and a dedication statement to the Mayor, Recorder, Sheriff, Aldermen…
The Road from Exeter to Barnstable & Thence to Ilfracombe co. Devon
Strip map by John Ogilby. This item may have originally come from the atlas 'Britannia, volume the first' (2nd ed, 1675) or 'Itinerarium Angliae' (1675), or possibly from the 1698 reprint of 'Britannia'.
A Plan of the City and Suburbs of Exeter
Benjamin Donne or Donn was responsible for the first entirely new survey of Devon since Christopher Saxton in the 16th century. This plan of the city and suburbs of Exeter was detached from Benjamin Donne's 'Map of the County of Devon' (1765).
Exonia. Excester.
Colour map of Exeter by Rutger Hemannides, based upon the 1587 map by John Hooker, originally engraved by Remigius Hogenberg.
Civitas Exoniae (vulgo Excester) urbs primaria in comitatu Devoniae
Framed copy of map of Exeter, engraved by Frans Hogenberg and printed in Vol. 6 of Georg Braun's 'Theatri praecipuarum totius mundi urbium'. It was based upon the 1587 map by John Hooker, originally engraved by Remigius Hogenberg.
Excester in Engellandt
This map of Exeter, based on John Hooker’s 1587 map, was published in the book ‘Libellus novus politicus emblematicus civitatum’ and is used to point the moral of the dangers of excessive lust. The Latin and German texts described how the female…
City of Exeter Town Map 1951
Folded town planning map of Exeter, produced by Cook, Hammond and Kell for the Planning Officer at Exeter City Council in 1951. During the Second World War, parts of Exeter were badly damaged or destroyed. The city underwent a period of post-war…
Isca Danmoniorum: britanice Kaier penhuelgorte: Saxonice Monketon: Latine Exonia: Anglice Exeancestre vel Exestre at nunc Vulgo Exeter: urbs perãtiqua, et Emporium celeberrimum
Isca Danmoniorum is the earliest known printed map of Exeter. It was commissioned by John Hooker, the first Chamblerlain of Exeter, from the Flemish engraver Remigius Hogenberg, and formed the basis of all printed maps of Exeter for more than a…
Transcripts of the letters of John Jarmain
Transcripts of 120 letters of the poet John Jarmain to his wife Beryl, with whom he regularly corresponded after travelling to North Africa and South Italy during the Second World War. The letters are dated from 17 June 1942 to 04 November 1943.…
