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1. A new and comprehensive gazetteer of England and Wales : presenting under each article respectively, the population of the towns and parishes, according to the Census of 1831 : and the state of the elective franchise, as fixed by the provisions of the Reform Bill / by James Bell ; illustrated by a series of maps, forming a complete county atlas of England.

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Creator:
Bell, James, 1769–1833
Date:
1835-1836
Physical Description:
8 pts. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A new and comprehensive gazetteer of England and Wales : presenting under each article respectively, the population of the towns and parishes, according to the census of 1831, and the state of the elective franchise, as fixed by the provision of the Reform Bill / by James Bell, author of Critical researches in geography-a system of geography, popular and scientific-and editor of Rollin's ancient history ; illustrated by a series of maps, forming a complete county atlas of England.

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Creator:
Bell, James, 1769–1833
Date:
MDCCCXXXIII-MDCCCXXXIV [1833-1834]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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

4. Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository of elegance, taste, and entertainment : containing a new and complete collection of superb views of all the most remarkable ruins and antient buildings, such as abbeys, castles, monasteries, priories ... : accompanied by elegant letter-press descriptions ... a complete set of county-maps ... together with an authentic account of Doomsday-Book ... / published under the inspection of Henry Boswell ... assisted by Robert Hamilton ... and other ingenious gentlemen ...

Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository of elegance, taste, and entertainment : containing a new and complete collection of superb views of all the most remarkable ruins and antient buildings, such as abbeys, castles, monasteries, priories ... : accompanied by elegant letter-press descriptions ... a complete set of county-maps ... together with an authentic account of Doomsday-Book ... / published under the inspection of Henry Boswell ... assisted by Robert Hamilton ... and other ingenious gentlemen ...
Date:
[1786]
Physical Description:
1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elizabeth Langhorne

5. Introduction to the Original delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, intituled The beauties of England and Wales : comprising observations on the history and antiquities of the Britons ... : together with remarks on the progress of ... architecture in succeeding ages / by J. Norris Brewer.

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Creator:
Brewer, J. N. (James Norris)
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xl, 676 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Recollections of Bala and neighbourhood.

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Date:
[184-?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([24] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 167 cm, folded to 19 x 14 cm, in covers 19 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The Cambrian traveller's guide, in every direction : containing remarks made during many excursions, in the principality of Wales, and bordering districts, augmented by extracts from the best writers.

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Creator:
Nicholson, George, 1760–1825
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
xiii, 1468 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts