Rare reduction of Rocque’s plan of Dublin

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A Plan of the City and Suburbs of Dublin by J. Rocque Reduced from his large Plan

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ROCQUE, John
Dublin,
engraved for and Sold by L. Elin at Bible in Castle Street & I. Williams, Skinner Row, [P. Halpin Sculp.]
1765

Engraved plan.

290 by 400mm. (11.5 by 15.75 inches).
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A scarce pirated (unauthorised) reduction of John Rocque's "Exact Survey of the City and Suburbs of Dublin".

Rocque's original survey of the city commenced in the autumn of 1754 and was published in four sheets just two years later. The map was drawn to a similar scale to his London plan upon 24 sheets, of two hundred feet to an inch, and portrayed "all publick buildings, dwelling houses, ware houses, stables, courts, yards &c'". Also depicted are numerous...

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Bonar Law G1b (ii)