. English: [Atlantic coasts of Europe, Norway to Finisterre]Two sheets joined. Hand coloured manuscript drawn on vellum, mounted on four hinged oak boards, each 79 x 27cm. The scale is in English leagues. The border is graduated for latitude. Soundings are shown in the south-west approaches, the Channel, North Sea and the Bay of Biscay. Heraldic shields feature on England, Scotland and Ireland. Made by Nicholas Comberford dwelling at the Signe of the Platt neare the west end of the schoole house in Ratcliffe anno 1666. Nicholas Comberford was a leading member of the Thames School of chart mak
. English: [Atlantic coasts of Europe, Norway to Finisterre]Two sheets joined. Hand coloured manuscript drawn on vellum, mounted on four hinged oak boards, each 79 x 27cm. The scale is in English leagues. The border is graduated for latitude. Soundings are shown in the south-west approaches, the Channel, North Sea and the Bay of Biscay. Heraldic shields feature on England, Scotland and Ireland. Made by Nicholas Comberford dwelling at the Signe of the Platt neare the west end of the schoole house in Ratcliffe anno 1666. Nicholas Comberford was a leading member of the Thames School of chart makers who drew manuscript plane charts on vellum. Manuscript chart of Norway to Cape Finisterre by Nicholas Comberford of London, 1666 . 1666. Nicholas Comberford 385 Atlantic coasts of Europe, Norway to Finisterre RMG 8173
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