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Morden’s Barbados
By MORDEN, Robert, 1680
The Island of Barbados. By Robert Morden.
- Author: MORDEN, Robert
- Publication place: [London
- Publication date: 1688].
- Physical description: Engraved map, text below and to verso.
- Dimensions: 130 by 120mm (5 by 4.75 inches).
- Inventory reference: 2666
Notes
Detailed map of Barbados, showing towns, plantations, roads, points, mountains and bays.
Published in “Geography rectified, or, A description of the world in all its kingdoms…” in 1688.
Published in “Geography rectified, or, A description of the world in all its kingdoms…” in 1688.
Biography
Robert Morden (c1650–1703)
Robert Morden was a leading English mapmaker from the last quarter of the eighteenth century; his place and date of birth are not known, but it is thought he came from the north of England, perhaps the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was probably apprenticed to Joseph Moxon, who was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, in the Weavers’ Company, and made free by about 1666.
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