The Roads From London To Bath & Wells [ Plate 35], an original antique map by J. Ogilby, published in London 1675-1698. A copperplate engraving, coloured. Map size 43.5 x 30.5 cm, overall mounted size 59.5 x 48.5 cm Ribbon style map of the road from Chippenham via Bath & Devizes to Wells. John Ogilby (1600-1676) is perhaps best known for his series of road-maps entitled the Britannia, which was the first road-atlas of any country, published in 1675. The atlas was an immediate success, being reprinted many times & was much copied by other map-makers. The atlas illustrates the major roads emanating from London with some of the more important cross roads. Each of the hundred sheets covers a distance of about seventy miles, so some of the longer routes are on several sheets
- for example London to Lands End is on four sheets. Each sheet is divided into strips representing parchment scrolls, with the map running continuously up the strips. Each map contains a wealth of information showing towns & villages, local landmarks, woods, bridges, castles & even gallows. Hills are shown diagrammatically to indicate the direction of the incline & their size. Furthermore, side roads & their destinations are also given all this at a constant scale, for the first time in any series, of one inch to one mile. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford
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The Road From Dartmouth To Minhead [ Plate 65], an original antique map by J. Ogilby, published in London 1675-1698. A copperplate engraving, uncoloured. Map size 43.5 x 30.5 cm, overall mounted size 59 x 47.5 cm An attracitve, ribbon style road map running via Exeter & Tiverton. John Ogilby (1600-1676) is perhaps best known for his series of road-maps entitled the Britannia, which was the first road-atlas of any country, published in 1675. The atlas was an immediate success, being reprinted many times & was much copied by other map-makers. The atlas illustrates the major roads emanating from London with some of the more important cross roads. Each of the hundred sheets covers a distance of about seventy miles, so some of the longer routes are on several sheets
- for example London to Lands End is on four sheets. Each sheet is divided into strips representing parchment scrolls, with the map running continuously up the strips. Each map contains a wealth of information showing towns & villages, local landmarks, woods, bridges, castles & even gallows. Hills are shown diagrammatically to indicate the direction of the incline & their size. Furthermore, side roads & their destinations are also given all this at a constant scale, for the first time in any series, of one inch to one mile. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford
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The Road From Exeter To Truroe [ Plate 69], an original antique map by J. Ogilby, published in London, 1675-. A copperplate engraving, coloured. Map size 45 x 34 cm, overall mounted size 59 x 47.5 cm. Towns depicted on this strip road map include Tavistock, Liskard & Truro. John Ogilby (1600-1676) is perhaps best known for his series of road-maps entitled the Britannia, which was the first road-atlas of any country, published in 1675. The atlas was an immediate success, being reprinted many times & was much copied by other map-makers. The atlas illustrates the major roads emanating from London with some of the more important cross roads. Each of the hundred sheets covers a distance of about seventy miles, so some of the longer routes are on several sheets
- for example London to Lands End is on four sheets. Each sheet is divided into strips representing parchment scrolls, with the map running continuously up the strips. Each map contains a wealth of information showing towns & villages, local landmarks, woods, bridges, castles & even gallows. Hills are shown diagrammatically to indicate the direction of the incline & their size. Furthermore, side roads & their destinations are also given all this at a constant scale, for the first time in any series, of one inch to one mile. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford
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The Road From Glocester To Montgomery, an original antique map by J. Ogilby, published in London, 1675. A copperplate engraving, coloured. Map size 43 x 31.5 cm, with a mount size of 59 x 47.5 cm.A ribbon map showing the road from Gloucester to Montgomery in North Wales, encountering along the way Hereford, Ross & Prestaine. John Ogilby is perhaps best-known for his series of road-maps entitled the Britannia, which was the first road-atlas of any country, published in 1675. The atlas was an immediate success, being reprinted many times & was much copied by other map-makers. The atlas illustrates the major roads emanating from London with some of the more important cross roads. Each of the hundred sheets covers a distance of about seventy miles, so some of the longer routes are on several sheets
- for example London to Lands End is on four sheets. Each sheet is divided into strips representing parchment scrolls, with the map running continuously up the strips. Each map contains a wealth of information showing towns & villages, local landmarks, woods, bridges, castles & even gallows. Hills are shown diagrammatically to indicate the direction of the incline & their size. Furthermore, side roads & their destinations are also given
- all this at a constant scale, for the first time in any series, of one inch to one mile. Expert repairs to small areas of paper weakness. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford

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The Road From Hereford To Leicester [ Plate 72], an original antique map by J. Ogilby, published in London, 1675. A copperplate engraving, coloured. Map size 44 x 34 cm with a mount size of 59.5 x 49 cm. Passing through the towns of Hereford, Worcester, Droitwich, Bromsgrove, Coventry & on to Leicester. John Ogilby (1600-1676) had a variety of colourful careers (not invariably ending in disaster) before he embarked on a career as a surveyor & cartographer. Ogilby is best known for his series of road-maps published in the atlas entitled Britannia, which was the first road-atlas of any country, published in 1675. The atlas was an immediate success, being reprinted many times & was much copied by other map-makers. The atlas illustrates the major roads emanating from London with some of the more important cross roads. Each of the hundred sheets in the atlas covers a distance of about seventy miles, so some of the longer routes are on several sheets
- for example London to Lands End is on four sheets. Each sheet is divided into strips representing parchment scrolls, with the map running continuously up the strips. Each map contains a wealth of information showing towns & villages, local landmarks, woods, bridges, castles & even gallows. One innovation is that hills are shown diagrammatically to show the direction of the incline & their size. Furthermore, side roads & their destinations are shown, all this at a constant scale, for the first time in any series, of one inch to one mile. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford
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The Road From Prestaine To Carmarthen [ Plate 84], an original antique map by J. Ogilby, published in London 1675-1698. A copperplate engraving, coloured. Map size 43.5 x 30.5 cm, overall mounted size 58 x 45.5 cm.A ribbon style road map running through mid Wales from Prestaine to Carmarthen. John Ogilby (1600-1676) is perhaps best known for his series of road-maps entitled the Britannia, which was the first road-atlas of any country, published in 1675. The atlas was an immediate success, being reprinted many times & was much copied by other map-makers. The atlas illustrates the major roads emanating from London with some of the more important cross roads. Each of the hundred sheets covers a distance of about seventy miles, so some of the longer routes are on several sheets
- for example London to Lands End is on four sheets. Each sheet is divided into strips representing parchment scrolls, with the map running continuously up the strips. Each map contains a wealth of information showing towns & villages, local landmarks, woods, bridges, castles & even gallows. Hills are shown diagrammatically to indicate the direction of the incline & their size. Furthermore, side roads & their destinations are also given all this at a constant scale, for the first time in any series, of one inch to one mile. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford
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The Road from London To Flambourough Head [ Plate 41], an original antique map by J. Ogilby, published in London, 1675. A copperplate engraving, coloured. Map size 43 x 34 cm with a mount size of 60 x 50.5 cm. Including the towns of Temsford, Peterborough, Bourne, Sleaford & Lincoln. John Ogilby (1600-1676) is perhaps best known for his series of road-maps entitled the Britannia, which was the first road-atlas of any country, published in 1675. The atlas was an immediate success, being reprinted many times & was much copied by other map-makers. The atlas illustrates the major roads emanating from London with some of the more important cross roads. Each of the hundred sheets covers a distance of about seventy miles, so some of the longer routes are on several sheets
- for example London to Lands End is on four sheets. Each sheet is divided into strips representing parchment scrolls, with the map running continuously up the strips. Each map contains a wealth of information showing towns & villages, local landmarks, woods, bridges, castles & even gallows. Hills are shown diagrammatically to indicate the direction of the incline & their size. Furthermore, side roads & their destinations are also given
- all this at a constant scale, for the first time in any series, of one inch to one mile. Repairs to two minor tears. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford

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It seemed a terrible shame to meet my end in Iowa; I couldn`t imagine anywhere more disappointing to die. If I were a betting man I`d have reckoned on the most dangerous thing in this state being sheer boredom. The scenery hadn`t changed for weeks & I was slowly dissolving into stimulation-deprived madness. My current predicament, then
- attempting to escape through cornfields from a gun-toting alcohol-soaked rancher
- was not something I expected. Just months after graduating from university, Leon received disastrous news: he had been offered a job. Terrified at the prospect of a life spent behind a desk, without challenge or adventure, he took off to cross America on an overloaded bicycle packed with everything but common sense. Over five months & 6, 000 miles, Leon cycled from New York to Seattle & then on to the Mexican border, facing tornados, swollen river crossings & one hungry black bear along the way. But he also met kind strangers who offered their food, wisdom, hospitality & even the occasional local history lesson, & learned what happens when you take a chance & follow the scent of adventure.

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The Road Home by Rose Tremain is a wise & witty novel centred on Lev, a middle aged Polish man who has come to London as a migrant worker, ostensibly to earn a little money to send to his mother & daughter, but in reality running from unspoken problems within himself & at home, & seeking something that even he himself has no concept of. The reader sees the road Lev travels through his own eyes
- at times laughing, crying & sighing with him as he struggles with mysterious rituals of “ Englishness”, including foods, fashions & fads. We walk hand in hand with him in friendships old & new, during moments of despair & discovery, seeing before us, after all the road that truly leads him…home…
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` For safety is a precious place, a place to call our own. This road is hard, this road is long, this road that leads us home.` As winter approaches, a bird flees with her chick, a mouse builds a nest for her child & rabbits run from wolves that roam in the darkening woods. The road home is long & hard, but the animals have each other in this poetic meditation on nature, survival & love. ...