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British County Atlases
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Sold by H. D. Symonds, No. 20, and Alex. Hogg, No. 16, Paternoster-Row; and may be had of all the Principal Booksellers and Newsmen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, London, 1798
Folio (375 x 235 mm.), recent cloth binding. With engraved frontispiece, recto blank, typographic title page, Introduction signed by Boswell and J. Newman in manuscript, pp. (2), ii, 42, numerous unpaginated typographic descriptions, with c.195 copper plate engravings and 40 maps of the English counties, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10453
£ 750
Simpkin & Marshall, Stationers' Court, Ludgate Hill, London, 1818
Duodecimo (175 x 105 mm.), full contemporary calf, ornate gilt panelled with gilt title to upper board, rebacked preserving original marbled endpapers. Typographic title page with circular duty ink stamp as often, pp. (4), 268, (4), engraved Address and Contents leaf and 43 maps, including general map of England and Wales, 40 maps of the English counties (Yorkshire folding with light creasing) and separate maps of North and South Wales, all in early wash colour, some manuscript notations in tables of game taken in 1819, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10452
£ 495
Longman, Rees & Co. Paternoster Row, and J. & C. Walker, 9, Castle Street, Holborn, London, 1838-[39]
Folio (350 x 235 mm.), contemporary half calf, blind green cloth boards, with gilt title to upper board, rebacked and recornered, spine with raised bands, blind and gilt ruled, each compartment with central gilt feature, gilt date and titles, later endpapers. With double page engraved title page and 47 steel engraved maps comprising 1 general, 42 of English counties and Wales quartered, all in fine early wash colour, some very light foxing, otherwise in very good condition.
Stock number: 10300
£ 750
Glasgow, 1834
Octavo (215 x 135 mm.), four volumes, contemporary half calf, cloth boards, ornate blind ruling, spines with raised bands, each decorated in gilt, gilt calf title and volume labels, marbled endpapers and marbled edged. With typographic title page, pp. (2), lxxii, 408; (2), 472; (2), 480; (2), 470, with 45 steel engraved maps comprising one large folding general map with old repairs to folds and rebound upside down, 42 of the English counties and north and south Wales, all side bound, minor foxing throughout as usual, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10288
£ 550
George Philip & Son, Ltd., London: The London Geographical Institute, 32 Fleet Street. Liverpool: Philip, Son & Nephew, 45 to 51 South Castle Street, London, 1885
Small folio (375 x 265 mm.), contemporary half calf, red cloth boards with gilt ruling, gilt title and vignette on upper board, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled compartments, gilt titles, marbled endpapers, light wear. With typographic title page, Contents, pp. 106, with 48 double page early wash coloured maps comprising 43 of the counties (Lancashire in 2, Leicester and Rutland combined, Yorkshire in 4), north and south Wales and 3 of islands, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10315
£ 195
Geographical Dictionary of England and Wales, London, 1832
Octavo (225 x 140 mm.), uncut, contemporary quarter cloth, paper boards, rebacked preserving original spine, with original publisher's paper title label, light wear. With typographic title page, pp. viii, 546, (2), ix-lxxxiv, with 43 maps, consisting of 1 general and 40 of the counties of England and 2 of Wales, printed on thick paper cut shorter than the binding, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10286
£ 250
Historical Descriptions of New and Elegant Picturesque Views of The Antiquities of England and Wales
Alexander Hogg, at the King's Arms, No. 16, Paternoster-Row, and Sold by all Booksellers, Printsellers, and News-Carriers, in Town and Country, London, c.1787-89
Folio (385 x 245 mm.), full contemporary tree calf, decorative floral gilt panelled boards, rebacked preserving the original spine with raised bands, ornate gilt ruled compartments, red calf gilt title, marbled endpapers, light wear. With engraved frontispiece, recto blank, typographic title page, with intervening contemporary tissue, Preface signed by Boswell, Index List of the Plates, List of Subscribers, pp. iv, 42, numerous unpaginated typographic descriptions, (8), with c.195 copper plate engravings and 50 maps including 40 of the English counties, maps of South Wales, North Wales and 8 further plates of maps of the Scottish districts and Irish provinces, in good condition.
Stock number: 10173
£ 950
Sold by H. D. Symonds, No. 20, and Alex. Hogg, No. 16, Paternoster-Row; and may be had of all the Principal Booksellers and Newsmen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, London, 1798
Folio (375 x 235 mm.), full contemporary marbled calf, rebacked with raised bands, blind ruled compartments, gilt calf title label. With engraved frontispiece, recto blank, typographic title page, pp. 2 Preface signed by Boswell in manuscript, pp. (2), 2, 42, numerous unpaginated typographic descriptions, with c.195 copper plate engravings and 40 maps of the English counties, in good condition.
Stock number: 10174
£ 750
Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall, London, 1763[64]
Quarto, two volumes (290 x 225 mm. each), full contemporary speckled calf, ribbed spines gilt ruled with decorative gilt central features, gilt red calf title labels. With typographic title page, Preface, Contents, Introduction, pp. (8), xiii, blank, 426; typographic title page, Contents, pp. (4), 490, with two general folding maps, 52 engraved county maps, all by Thomas Kitchin, 39 engraved town views and numerous other engravings set in the text, complete with blank endpapers, some offsetting from maps to text second folding map wrinkled, B2 in the first volume not fully bound, otherwise a good example.
Stock number: 10175
£ 1,250
Carington Bowles, At his Map and Print-Warehouse, No. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London, 1785
Small quarto (185 x 115 mm.), two volumes, full early marbled calf, gilt panelled, spine with ornate gilt ruled bands, calf gilt title and volume numbers affixed, light wear. Volume 1 with engraved general double-page map of England and Wales in early wash colour, engraved title page, dedication, General Contents, Preface, Index to the Direct Roads, Cross Roads, 'Scotch' Roads and 186 strip road maps (2 to a page), 187 & 188 blank, pp. x, xxix, (1), 40 [paginated 189-228]; volume 2 with engraved title page 142 strip road maps (2 to a page), branch roads pp. 24 [paginated 143-167], (1), engraved title page to the Cross Roads, a further 30 strip road maps of the Cross Roads beginning on the verso of the title (2 to a page), Cross Roads and Roads in Scotland, Errata to the verso pp. 90, (1) [paginated 31-121], advert pasted on back board of second volume, in good condition.
Stock number: 10191
£ 495
John Cary, Engraver & Map-seller, No. 181, near Norfolk Street, Strand, London, Jany. 1st. 1793
Quarto (315 x 255 mm.), later half calf marbled paper boards, spine with gilt ruled compartments, original calf title label preserved, later endpapers. Engraved title page and Dedication, typographic contents leaf, map of South Britain and 43 county maps on 44 plates (West Riding being on two plates) and both North and South Wales, 47 maps in total, all in early outline colour with main routes coloured brown with wash to wooded areas, 'Directions for the Junctions of the Roads of England and Wales through all the Counties', 'Market and Borough Towns in England and Wales', 'List of the Principal Post and Sub-Post Towns in England and Wales' pp. 17, in good condition.
Stock number: 10196
£ 650
Printed for John Cary, Engraver, Map & Printseller, Strand, London, 1 Jan. 1791-[92]
Small quarto (160 x 105 mm.), full contemporary marbled calf, ornate gilt panelled, rebacked with gilt ruled compartments, marbled endpapers. With engraved title page, Advertisement and Contents and 43 engraved maps bound back-to-back, all in early outline colour, that of Yorkshire folding with binders tear repaired by backing on paper, Index with an advert leaf on verso of final leaf pp. 7, (1), endpapers detaching, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10203
£ 195
Sherwood, Jones, and Co. Paternoster Row, London, 1824
Octavo (145 x 120 mm.), contemporary half calf, with marbled paper boards, rebacked with matching spine, gilt ruled compartments, each with central gilt star feature, gilt title. With typographic title with a woodcut vignette, further typographic title as above, pp. (2), (viii), 86, (70), (28) with 49 further maps (3 folding) in early outline colour, Index general map opposite 'Reference to the Maps' numbered '0', maps numbered to 47 including 40 counties, 3 of Yorkshire Ridings, Lake District, South Scotland, North and South Wales and the Isle of Thanet unnumbered but '48' in the list of contents, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10238
£ 350
W. Lewis, No. 21 Finch Lane, Cornhill, London, [1819]-[32]
Octavo (150 x 115 mm.), contemporary half red calf, with paper boards, publisher's paper title label affixed to upper board, spine with gilt tooling top and bottom and gilt title. With general map of England and Wales, engraved title page, Preface dated 1819, Contents, List of Mail-Coaches etc., 40 maps of the counties, North and South Wales as called for, in all 43 maps, each with a page of descriptive text, Yorkshire folding, all in full contemporary wash colour, first front free endpaper with upper portion torn away, some light foxing to the text, otherwise a good example.
Stock number: 10242
£ 250
R. Miller, 24, Old Fish Street St. Pauls, London, [1820]
Duodecimo (135 x 105 mm.), modern half green calf, green cloth boards, spine with gilt date and title, re-guarded. With engraved title, Index and 56 copper plate maps, all in full early wash colour, pp. 12, otherwise in very good condition.
Stock number: 10252
£ 950
Darton and Clark, 58 Holborn Hill, London, c.1844
Quarto (210 x 170 mm.), contemporary half calf, full contemporary red cloth, ornate blind ruling to boards, gilt embossed title to upper board, rebacked in matching cloth. With pictorial frontispiece and title, further letterpress title, Preface and 40 early wash coloured lithographic plates, some light offsetting as usual, otherwise a good example.
Stock number: 10254
£ 1,650
W. H. Reid, Charing Cross, London, 1820
Octavo (120 x 80 mm.), recent quarter calf, marbled paper boards, spine with gilt ruling top and bottom and gilt title. With engraved frontispiece title, engraved Contents, typographic title page with Index on verso, Address with Errata on the verso, two engraved divisional titles of England and Wales, pp. (4), 162, and 53 maps (1 general and 52 county maps) all in full original wash colour, tear to p. 113, water stain to Welsh half title, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10259
£ 1,650
Chapman & Hall 186, Strand, London, 1836
Quarto (265 x 205 mm.), modern quarter calf, paper boards, spine with gilt ruled compartments and date, gilt calf title, later endpapers, but retaining the original front free one. With engraved title page, List of Maps and 47 steel engraved maps on 54 sheets all in early wash colour, each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text except for the last few maps with more, last 4 sheet map of Inland Navigation as one folded and laid on contemporary linen, occasional light foxing, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 10282
£ 250
G. F. Cruchley, Map Seller & Globe Maker, 81, Fleet Street, London, London, c.1864
Quarto (235 x 150 mm.), full contemporary dark blue calf, rebacked in cloth with a recent saddlebag cloth flap and new endpapers. With title page, Index and 47 lithographic maps comprising a general map of England and Wales, 43 county maps on 44 plates (West Riding being on two plates) and both North and South Wales, all in early outline colour, otherwise generally fine.
Stock number: 9808
£ 350
Thomas Bowles, London, 1736
Octavo (195 x 135 mm.), full contemporary calf, gilt panelled, rebacked with ribbed spine, gilt ruled compartments each with ornate gilt floral feature, with green calf title label attached, marbled endpapers. With title page, pp. 5, (3), 273, with 273 engraved plates of road strips and county maps printed back-to-back. Title page with small tear, maps of Berkshire and Radnor inserted from another example, otherwise a clean example.
Stock number: 10145
£ 1,250