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The highways and byways of old Sheffield
Leader, R E
[1906]
Extracted from the Sheffield Daily Independent, Saturday, February 10, 1906.
Britannia depicta or Ogilby improv'd : being a correct coppy [sic.] of Mr. Ogilby's actual survey of all ye direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales: wherein are exactly delineated & engraved, all ye cities, towns, villages, churches, seats, &c
Ogilby, John (1600-1676); Bowen, Emanuel (1767); Owen, John of the Middle Temple
1736
Remainder of title: "... And to render this work universally useful & agreeable [beyond any of it's kind] are added in a clear and most compendious method 1, A full & particular description & account ...
Remarks on the present system of road making : with observations, deduced from practice and experience, with a view to a revision of the existing laws, and the introduction of improvement in the method of making, repairing, and preserving roads, and defending the road funds from misapplication
McAdam, John Loudon (1756-1836)
1822
On title page, edition statement precedes author's name.
Liste générale des postes de France, dressée par ordre de monseigneur Armand-Jules-François duc de Polignac, marquis de Mancini... Directeur général des Postes aux Chevaux, Relais & Messageries de France. Pour l'année 1786
Polignac, Armand Jules François duc de; France. Direction générale des postes
[1786?]
Half-title page title: Postes de France, 1786.
Cary's Traveller's companion, or, A delineation of the turnpike roads of England and Wales : shewing the immediate rout to every market and borough town 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)
1790
The first edition of an exceedingly popular pocket atlas of the counties. The maps details are confined to the places on the main roads only. There were about fourteen editions and the engraved plates...
An actual survey of the great post-roads between London and Edinburgh
Armstrong, Mostyn John
1776
Contains maps by a number of engravers (chiefly Pyle and Page), covering the route from London to Edinburgh, with alternative routes between Ferrybridge and Northallerton (via Wetherby and York respec...
A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales
Paterson, Daniel (1738-1825)
1792
A particularly popular work which ran to eighteen editions. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 110.
A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great-Britain
Paterson, Daniel (1738-1825)
1799
A particularly popular work which ran to eighteen editions. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 110.
A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great-Britain
Paterson, Daniel (1738-1825)
1799
A particularly popular work which ran to eighteen editions. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 110.
Paterson's roads : being an entirely original and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales, with part of the roads of Scotland
Paterson, Daniel (1738-1825); Mogg, Edward
1826
Includes index.
Cary's new itinerary, or, An accurate delineation of the great roads, both direct and cross, throughout England and Wales : with many of the principal roads in Scotland, from an actual admeasurement made by command of His Majesty's postmaster general, for official purposes, under the direction and inspection of Thomas Hasker
Cary, John (1754-1835)
1798
Title on verso of first leaf.