Items (9 total)
- Collection: Townsend Map Collection
A Plan of the City and Suburbs of Exeter
A plan of the city and suburbs of Exeter by Benjamin Donne or Donn. Donne was responsible for the first entirely new survey of Devon since the survey undertaken by Christopher Saxton in the 16th century. This plan was detached from Benjamin Donne's…
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 out the dangers of excessive lust. The Latin and German texts describe how the female serpent bites…
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…
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
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.
Exonia. Excester.
Colour map of Exeter by Rutger Hermannides, based upon the 1587 map by John Hooker, originally engraved by Remigius Hogenberg.
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…
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 legend to the churches in Exeter in the upper right corner and a dedication statement to the Mayor, Recorder, Sheriff,…
The Road from Exeter to Barnstable & Thence to Ilfarcomb 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'.