A set of fifty new and correct maps of England and Wales, &c : with the great roads and principal cross roads, &c. shewing the computed miles form town to town. A work long wanted, and very useful for all gentlemen that travel to any part of England
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Type of record: Book
Title: A set of fifty new and correct maps of England and Wales, &c : with the great roads and principal cross roads, &c. shewing the computed miles form town to town. A work long wanted, and very useful for all gentlemen that travel to any part of England
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 50
Creator(s): Moll, Herman (1732)
Additional creator(s): Bowles, Thomas (1767) (Other); Bowles, John (1701-1779) (Other)
Related people: Bowles, Thomas; Bowles, John
Publisher: Sold by H. Moll..., Tho. Bowles..., J. Bowles
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): 1724
Language: English
Size and medium: [51] leaves of plates, some fold
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298105
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003834669705181
Description
This contains the maps, but not the text, from Moll's A new description of England and Wales, 1724. The only alteration is that the plates are now numbered, within brackets between the border lines, in the top left corner. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 42.
Plates decorated with illustrations of coins, fossils, sights of interest, artifacts &c.
Indexed in: Chubb CLXI.
Additional description
This volume was apparently once the property of John Doharty Junr., a famous architect, who had used the plain backs of the maps for sketching palatial mansions, ornamental bridges, etc.
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