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Cary's new and correct English atlas : being a new set of county maps from actual surveys. Exhibiting all the direct & principal cross roads, cities, towns, and most considerable villages, parks, rivers, navigable canals &c. preceded by a general map of South Britain, shewing the connexion of one map with another, also a general description of each county, and directions for the junction of the roads from one county to another

Archive Print Item: Large Whitaker Collection 83a

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Type of record: Book

Title: Cary's new and correct English atlas : being a new set of county maps from actual surveys. Exhibiting all the direct & principal cross roads, cities, towns, and most considerable villages, parks, rivers, navigable canals &c. preceded by a general map of South Britain, shewing the connexion of one map with another, also a general description of each county, and directions for the junction of the roads from one county to another

Other titles: New and correct English atlas

Level: Item

Classmark: Large Whitaker Collection 83a

Creator(s): Cary, John (1754-1835)

Publisher: Printed for John Cary

Publication city: London

Date(s): Sept. 1st. 1787

Language: English

Size and medium: [3] l, [45] leaves, [47] leaves of plates,17, [8] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299174

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003988569705181

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Asterisks have been added to the map of Northumberland, and the roads have been revised on the maps of Shropshire, North Wales and South Wales, since the first state of the edition of 1787--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 54.


London meridian.


Relief shown by hachures.


Descriptions of the counties include lists of seats and views.


Includes lists of market and borough towns, directions for the junction of the roads of England and Wales through all counties, post and sub-post towns with their receiving houses, and subscribers to the atlas.


Indexed in: This state not recorded by Chubb.

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