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Cary's Traveller's companion; or, a delineation of the turnpike roads of England and Wales; shewing the immediate route to every market and boroughtown throughout the kingdom, laid down from the best authorities, on a new set of county maps : To which is added, an alphabetical list of all the market towns, with the days on which they are held
Cary, John (1754-1835)
1822
First 3 leaves, incl. t.-p., are engraved. This edition is printed from a third set of engraved plates, which actually came into use in 1822. Those county maps printed with the East or West at the t...
Cary's Traveller's companion; or, a delineation of the turnpike roads of England and Wales; shewing the immediate route to every market and boroughtown throughout the kingdom, laid down from the best authorities, on a new set of county maps : To which is added, an alphabetical list of all the market towns, with the days on which they are held
Cary, John (1754-1835)
1828
First 3 leaves, incl. t.-p., are engraved. This edition is printed from a third set of engraved plates, which actually came into use in 1822. Those county maps printed with the East or West at the t...
Smith's new English atlas : being a complete set of county maps, divided into hundreds, on which are delineated all the direct and cross roads part of which are from actual measurement, cities, towns, and most considerable villages, parks, gentlemen's seats, rivers, and navigable canals: preceded by a general map of England and Wales on which the principal roads are carefully described, for the purpose of facilitating the connexion of the respective maps. The whole accompanied by an index villaris, containing upwards of forty thousand names of places mentioned in the work, with reference to their situation
Smith, Charles (fl. 1803-1862); Jones & Smith
1804
This was the first county atlas with the maps based on the meridian of Greenwich Observatory, though not all the maps are accurately so done. It is up to date as regards canals and turnpike roads.--Wh...
Smith's new English atlas : being a complete set of county maps, divided into hundreds, on which are delineated all the direct and cross roads part of which are from actual measurement cities, towns, and most considerable villages, parks, gentlemen's seats, rivers, and navigable canals: preceded by a general map of England and Wales on whichthe principal roads are carefully described, for the purpose of facilitating the connexion of the respective maps. The whole accompanied by an index villaris, containing upwards of forty thousand names of places mentioned in the work, with reference to their situation
Smith, Charles (fl. 1803-1862); Jones & Smith
1804
Maps dated "January 6th 1804". Map imprints: "Jones & Smith sc." These names have been added to the maps of Cheshire and Lancashire, from which they had been missing in another state of the 1804 edi...
Smith's new English atlas : being a complete set of county maps, divided into hundreds, on which are delineated all the direct and cross roads part of which are from actual measurement, cities, towns, and most considerable villages, parks, gentlemen's seats, rivers, and navigable canals: preceded by a general map of England and Wales on which the principal roads are carefully described, for the purpose of facilitating the connexion of the respective maps. The whole accompanied by an index villaris, containing upwards of forty thousand names of places mentioned in the work, with reference to their situation
Smith, Charles (fl. 1803-1862)
1808
Greenwich meridian. The mail-coach routes are now distinctively coloured dark orange, to distinguish them from the other turnpike routes which are coloured buff. A few maps show revisions since the ...
The Travelling atlas of England & Wales : with all the railways, & coachroads, the cities, towns, parks & gentlemens seats. Preceded by general maps of England & North & South Wales. The whole carefully revised and corrected to the present time
[ca. 1868]
The railways have been brought up to date, and eleven of the maps re-engraved since the edition of [1852] (Chubb DXXX). Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 92.
Britannia, volume the first : or, An illustration of the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales: by a geographical and historical description of the principal roads thereof. Actually admeasured and delineated in a century of whole-sheet copper-sculps. Accomodated with the ichnography of the several cities and capital towns; and compleated by an accurate account of the more remarkable passages of antiquity, together with a novel discourse of the present state
Ogilby, John (1600-1676)
1675
Title page in red and black. Added engraved t.p. This is the first survey of the roads of England and Wales. The maps are engraved on strips representing bands of ribbon of about 2.5" width. They ...
L'indicateur fidèle, ou Guide des voyageurs, qui enseigne toutes les routes royales et particulières de la France, routes levées topographiquement dès le commencement de ce siècle, et assujetties à une graduation géométrique... & accompagn̈ d'un itinéraire instructif et raisonné sur chaque route, qui donne le jour et l'heure du départ, de la dinée et de la couchée tant des coches par eau, que des carosses, diligences, et messageries du royaume, avec le nombre des lieuës que ces différentes voitures font chaque jour
Michel Sieur; Desnos, L C
1767
"Carte générale de France" without numbering.
Cary's Traveller's companion; or, a delineation of the turnpike roads of England and Wales; shewing the immediate route to every market and boroughtown throughout the kingdom, laid down from the best authorities, on a new set of county maps : To which is added, an alphabetical list of all the market towns, with the days on which they are held
Cary, John (1754-1835)
1810
Title page engraved. Dates on the maps: May 1. 1810.
Cary's Traveller's companion; or, a delineation of the turnpike roads of England and Wales; shewing the immediate route to every market and boroughtown throughout the kingdom, laid down from the best authorities, on a new set of county maps : To which is added, an alphabetical list of all the market towns, with the days on which they are held
Cary, John (1754-1835)
1814
First 3 leaves, incl. t.-p., are engraved. Traveller's companion. Each county map is dated May 1. 1814.