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First Edition. History of the Ordnance survey series and its predecessors - one for the cartographers. Softcovers, one small mark to half title and slight crease to cover corner otherwise VG.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 116 pages ; 21 cm. Brian Adams was a unique man with unique knowledge. Most of the standard references for the projections, construction data and, in many cases, the sheet lines of nineteenth and early twentieth century Ordnance maps are to Brian's articles scattered through the Sheetlines of fifteen or more years ago. For further information you have to hunt through his contributions to the forwards and appendices to several of the Society's books, as well as two others by David Archer. Roger Hellyer has now had the opportunity to go through Brian's papers and has discovered further, unpublished, data on similar subjects. To preserve all this information in one easily accessible source, and also as a tribute to a distinguished and much loved Honorary Member of the society, we have produced this book.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. vi, 154 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 25 cm. Described as a field guide , the book is intended to help readers identify and put into context any sheets that they may come across. Colour has been used liberally to illustrate both the maps and their covers. There is also a complete set of index diagrams for each series, together with enough about the history and processes of the Ordnance Survey to understand why their maps looked as they did. Finally, there are chapters on mapmakers at war and on collecting maps. …