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George Louis Le Rouge was a military engineer who took up cartography from about 1740. This work is a French edition of ‘An Actual Survey … of the Principal Roads’ by John Senex first published in London, 1719. A 1759 edition of the English issue is also found in this catalogue. The title page to this work is split in two with the French title to the right and the English to the left. Provenance: private English collection; Clive A. Burden Ltd. 2008; Dr. Adrian Almond collection. Bennett (1996) pp. 57-9; Carroll Appendix no. 8; Fordham p. 24.
LE ROUGE, George Louis
Les Routes D'Ogilby par L'Angleterre Revues Corrigees, augmentees, & reduites par Senex en 101 Cartes
Paris, 1759
Oblong octavo (180 x 250 mm.), full contemporary limp calf with protective flap. With engraved title in French and English, introduction (2), Table des Villes (4), Table des Routes (2), engraved general map of England and Wales and 101 engraved road strips back to back. Complete with endpapers. In excellent condition.
Stock number: 7746
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