Detailed county map of Caernarfonshire and Anglesey, the
latter titled by its Latin name, Mona.

The map is bordered by
Denbighshire, Merionethshire, and the Irish Sea. A finely engraved title
cartouche appears in the lower-right corner, ornamented with sheaves of grain
and flanked by a harvestman.

Along the right-hand margin is displayed the heraldic
badge of the Prince of Wales’s feathers, comprising three white ostrich
feathers encircled by a gold coronet and accompanied by the motto Ich Dien
(“I Serve”). The upper-right corner bears the historic arms of the Welsh
princes of Gwynedd, shown as a shield quartered in red and gold with lions. In
the upper-left corner is the shield of the chivalric Order of the Garter, the
highest order of British knighthood, encircled by its motto “Honi soit qui
mal y pense”, an Anglo-Norman maxim in Old French, spoken by the medieval
rulers of England, meaning “Evil be to him who thinks evil.”

German text on verso. Original hand-colour.

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