Atlas Anglicanus : or a complete sett of maps of the counties of south Britain; divided into their respective hundreds, wapentakes, wards, rapes, lathes &c. Exhibiting the cities, boroughs, market towns, parishes & principal villages; with the number of members of parliament & the market days annexed to each town; describing also the church livings. The whole illustrated with historical extracts, relative to natural produce, trade, manufactures &c. both entertaining and instructive; with various improvements, not inserted in any other sett of half sheet maps extant. To which is added a correct map of the roads of England, with the distances agreable to the mile stones and other exact admensurations, between the principal towns
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Type of record: Book
Title: Atlas Anglicanus : or a complete sett of maps of the counties of south Britain; divided into their respective hundreds, wapentakes, wards, rapes, lathes &c. Exhibiting the cities, boroughs, market towns, parishes & principal villages; with the number of members of parliament & the market days annexed to each town; describing also the church livings. The whole illustrated with historical extracts, relative to natural produce, trade, manufactures &c. both entertaining and instructive; with various improvements, not inserted in any other sett of half sheet maps extant. To which is added a correct map of the roads of England, with the distances agreable to the mile stones and other exact admensurations, between the principal towns
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 75
Creator(s): Bowen, Emanuel (1767)
Additional creator(s): Bowen, Thomas (fl. 1749-1790) (Other); Kitchin, Thomas (1718-1784) (Other)
Related people: Bowen, Thomas; Kitchin, Thomas
Publisher: Printed for T. Kitchen no. 59, Holborn Hill
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): [1767?]
Language: English
Size and medium: [1], 45 leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298204
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003844619705181
Description
Engraved throughout.
The work comprises of an engraved titlepage and 45 numbered maps.
Maps are reduced versions of those in the Large and Royal English Atlas of 1760 and 1762. They show practically the same details, repeat the same errors, and are surrounded in the same way by historical notes. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 51.
London meridian.
Relief shown pictorially.
Indexed in: ESTC T163463; Chubb CCXXXII.
Additional description
Bound with 2 other publications. Volume contents: 1. Bowen, E.: Atlas Anglicanus, [1767]. -- 2. Bowen, E.: An accurate map of 460 miles around London, 1764. -- 3. Martin, B.: The first principles of geography and astronomy, 1757
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