A new description of England and Wales : with the adjacent islands. Wherein are contained, diverse useful observations and discoveries in respect to natural history, antiquities, customs, honours, privileges, &c. With a particular account of the products, trade, and manufactures of the respective places in every county, and their improvements or decays. Together with many uncommon observations concerning mines of several sorts. Also, several errors of different kinds are rectified. The whole illustrated with many historical and critical remarks. To which is added, a new and correct set of maps of each County, their roads and distances; and, to render 'em the more acceptable to the curious, their margins are adorn'd with great variety of very remarkable antiquities, &c
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Type of record: Book
Title: A new description of England and Wales : with the adjacent islands. Wherein are contained, diverse useful observations and discoveries in respect to natural history, antiquities, customs, honours, privileges, &c. With a particular account of the products, trade, and manufactures of the respective places in every county, and their improvements or decays. Together with many uncommon observations concerning mines of several sorts. Also, several errors of different kinds are rectified. The whole illustrated with many historical and critical remarks. To which is added, a new and correct set of maps of each County, their roads and distances; and, to render 'em the more acceptable to the curious, their margins are adorn'd with great variety of very remarkable antiquities, &c
Classmark: Large Whitaker Collection 49
Creator(s): Moll, Herman (1732)
Additional creator(s): Bowles, Thomas (1767) (Other); Bowles, John (1701-1779) (Other); Rivington, Charles (1688-1742) (Other)
Related people: Bowles, Thomas; Bowles, John; Rivington, Charles
Publisher: Printed for H. Moll..., T. Bowles..., and C. Rivington..., and J. Bowles
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1724
Language: English
Size and medium: [2],xi,[1],343[i.e.344],x p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299058
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003976519705181
Description
Title-page in red and black.
With an index.
The maps of this work are readily identified by the illustrations of "remarkable antiquities" which adorn the end margins. The map of the West Riding shows "The manner of Execution according to Halifax Law" (a drawing of the Halifax Gibbet). Many of the maps show coins, Roman altars, etc.--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 42.
The maps were also issued separately as "A set of fifty new and correct maps".
Relief shown pictorially.
P. 344 misnumbered 343.
Indexed in: ESTC T145692; Chubb CLX.
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