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Subject Terms Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.

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1. 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 / by John Ogilby Esq. ...

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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([34], 200, [4] pages, [203] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 44 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Chorographia Britanniae, or, A set of maps of all the counties in England and Wales : ... with the particular map of each county is an account of all the cities, boroughs, market towns, parishes, and rivers therein, the number of members it sends to Parliament, the market and fair days, and in those of Oxford and Cambridge are the names of all the colleges and halls in both universities, with the dates of their foundations : to the whole is added an alphabetical index of all the cities, boroughs, & market towns, properly distinguish'd from each other, and in what county they are situate : this collection ... was first drawn and compiled into a pocket book, by order and for the use of His late Majesty King George I / by Thomas Badeslade, surveyor and engineer, and now neatly engraved by Will. Henry Toms.

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Creator:
Badeslade, Thomas
Date:
1742
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([53] leaves) : 46 col. maps ; 25 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Index villaris, or, An exact register, alphabetically digested, of all the cities, market-towns, parishes, villages, ... the bishopricks, deanries [sic], churches, chapels, hospitals : with the rectories and vicarages in England and Wales, ... the private seats of the king, nobility and gentry, the number of Parliament men sent by cities or burroughs, the inns of court, colleges, inns of chancery, or other societies ... : hereto is added a perfect catalogue of the nobility of England and Wales, to the present time, Feb. 20 1700, with their respective seats and the counties wherein they are situate.

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Creator:
Adams, Mr. (John), -1738
Date:
1700
Physical Description:
[8], 420 [i.e. 416] p. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A compleat sett of mapps of England and Wales in general, and of each county in particular : accurately projected in a new method and all of them original drawings, most humbly inscribed to His Majesty King George by Francis Negus, Comisioner for Executing the Office of Master of the Horse to His Majesty : drawn and finsh'd by Tho. Badeslade.

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Creator:
Badeslade, Thomas
Date:
1724
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([58] leaves) : maps ; 17 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts