Badeslade & Toms’ Map of Middlesex Printed Area Measurement_18 x 30.5 cm The survey for this map

The survey for this map was made on the outward voyage of Lord Macartney's embassy to China and shows the entrance to Turon Harbour – Da Nang in modern Vietnam – and the course of the brig HMS Jackall

The handbooks are bound using treasury tags

Wellington’s forces defeated Marshal Soult on French soil

John Waters Coldicott also appears to be responsible for adding co-ordinates of the Saint Malo light by hand on page xv

Environs of Wembley from Rocque’s ‘An Exact Survey of the City’s of London

Badeslade & Toms’ Map of Middlesex Printed Area Measurement_18 x 30.5 cm The survey for this mapThis map of Middlesex was engraved by Toms for Thomas Badeslades Chorographia Britanniae, an attractive pocket atlas which according to Badeslade himself was originally compiled for the use of George I. The panel on the left contains a wealth of local detail such as fairs and market days, the number of MPs returned to parliament and information about significant rivers. The atlas was first published in 1742, but additional roads were added a couple of