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1. Voyage d'un français en Angleterre, pendant les années 1810 et 1811 : avec des observations sur l'état politique et moral, les arts, et la littérature de ce pays, et sur les moeurs et les usages de ses habitans ...

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Creator:
Simond, L. (Louis), 1767–1831
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales, and part of the roads of Scotland ... / the whole greatly augmented and improved by the assistance of Frances Freeling by Lieutenant-Colonel Paterson ...

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
1808
Physical Description:
viii, 64, [1], [ix]-xvi, 527, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Red cross, or, Young America in England and Wales : a story of travel and adventure / by Oliver Optic.

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Creator:
Optic, Oliver, 1822–1897
Date:
1868
Physical Description:
[4], 336, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

4. Remarks made in a tour from London to the lakes of Westmoreland and Cumberland in the summer of M.DCC.XCI. Originally published in the Whitehall Evening Post, and now reprinted with additions and corrections. To which is annexed, A sketch of the police, religion, arts, and agriculture of France, made in an excursion to Paris in M.DCC.LXXXV. By A. Walker, ...

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Creator:
Walker, A. (Adam), 1730 or 31–1821
Date:
M,DCC,XCII [1792]
Physical Description:
[6], 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. L'Angleterre, ou, Description historique et topographique du royaume uni de la Grande-Bretagne : contenant les comtés de la principauté de Galles, des reyaumes d'Écosse, d'Irlande et d'Angleterre, les îles Orcades, Shetland, etc. / par M. G.-B. Depping ; ornée de 75 cartes et vues.

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Creator:
Depping, G.-B. (Georges-Bernard), 1784–1853
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill., maps ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Cornish's stranger's guide through Birmingham : being an accurate description of all that is worth the notice of the visitor to the town : either in its public buildings, manufactories, or religious edifices : with the public walks and rides in the vicinity, etc.

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Creator:
Cornish, J. (James)
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
vi, 114 p., [2] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Curiosities of Great Britain. England & Wales delineated: historical entertaining & commercial. Alphabetically arranged / by Thomas Dugdale ... ; assisted by William Burnett.

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Creator:
Dugdale, Thomas
Date:
[185-?]
Physical Description:
11 v. (l586) p., [232] leaves of plates (some double) : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Froggett's survey of the country thirty miles round London, 1836 [cartographic material].

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Creator:
Froggett, John, active 1808–1821
Date:
[1836]
Physical Description:
1 map on 4 sheets : hand col., mounted on linen ; 113 x 137 cm, sheets 56 x 68 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The curiosities, natural and artificial, of the island of Great Britain : containing a full and accurate description of whatever is remarkable and worthy of notice in the works of nature and art in the several counties, cities, towns, villages &c. of England, Wales and Scotland : the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, public buildings, places of resort and entertainment, &c. : carefully and faithfully displayed.

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Date:
[1780?]
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Magnae Britanniae Notitia : or, The present state of Great Britain; with divers remarks upon the antient state thereof. / By John Chamberlayne, ...

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Creator:
Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616–1703
Date:
MDCCXXIII (1723)
Physical Description:
[4], vi, [12], 672, 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

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Creator:
Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718–1785
Date:
1772
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Ogilby's and Morgan's Pocket-book of the roads : with their computed and measured distances, and the distinction of market and post towns : also a table for the ready finding any road, city, or market-town, and its distance from London : a sheet-map of England, fitted to bind with the book : and an exact account of all the fairs, both fixed and movable, in alphabetical order, shewing the days on which they are held / by William Morgan ...

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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1752
Physical Description:
[40], 17-166 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. New picture of London, or, A view of the political, religious,medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis : presenting a luminous guide to the stranger, on all subjects connected with general information, business, or amusement, to which is subjoined, a description of the environs.

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Creator:
Leigh, Samuel
Physical Description:
viii, 496 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Observations on several parts of Great Britain, particularly the High-lands of Scotland, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776 ... By William Gilpin ...

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
1808
Physical Description:
2 v. 40 plates (incl. diagr., 5 plans) 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... / originally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.

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Creator:
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:
1779
Physical Description:
4 v. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The beauties of England, or, A comprehensive view of the public structures, the seats of the nobility and gentry, the two universities, the cities, market towns, antiquities and curiosities, natural and artificial, for which this island is remarkable : including a circumstantial account of the curiosities of London and Westminster : divided into the respective counties and intended as a travelling pocket companion ...

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Creator:
Luckombe, Philip, -1803
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
xxii, 344 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Ancient streets and homesteads of England / by Alfred Rimmer ; and an introduction by the Very Rev. J.S. Howson ... ; with one hundred and fifty illustrations from drawings by the author ; engraved by J.D. Cooper.

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Creator:
Rimmer, Alfred, 1829–1893
Date:
1879
Physical Description:
xxii, 350 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The complete English traveller, or, A new survey and description of England and Wales : containing a full account of whatever is curious and entertaining in the several counties of England and Wales, the isles of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, and other islands adjoining to, and dependant on the crown of Great Britain ... : to which is added, a concise and accurate description of ... Scotland .../ by Nathaniel Spencer ...

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Creator:
Sanders, Robert, 1727–1783
Date:
1771
Physical Description:
iv, 696 [i.e. 700], [12] p., [61] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The juvenile tourist: or, excursions through various parts of the island of Great-Britain; : including the west of England, midland counties, and the whole county of Kent; ... In a series of letters to a pupil. ... / By John Evans, ...

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Creator:
Evans, John, 1767–1827
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
[3]-xi, [1], 475, [7] p., [25] leaves of plates (some folding) : ill., port., maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A new and accurate description of the present great roads and the principal cross roads of England and Wales : commencing at London, and continued to the farthest parts of the kingdom, with the several branches leading out of them, and a description of the several towns that stand thereon : divided into four parts, viz. western, northern, eastern, and southern : to which are added, the ancient Roman roads and stations in Britain : also some general rules to know the original of the names of places in England, a list of mitred abbots, and an alphabetical list of fairs regulated according to the new style.

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Date:
1756
Physical Description:
[8], 168, lxiv p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Pigot & Co.'s metropolitan guide & book of reference : to every street, court, lane, passage, alley and public building : in the cities of London & Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and their respective suburbs.

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Creator:
J. Pigot & Co
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
154 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Leigh's new picture of London, or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis : presenting a luminous guide to the stranger, on all subjects connected with general information, business, or amusement, to which is subjoined, a description of the environs.

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Creator:
Leigh, Samuel
Date:
1825-5
Physical Description:
vii, 520, 35 p., [40] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A descriptive sketch of Dover : comprising the castle, heights, harbour & town : also an account of the stages from Dover to London : with a brief description of the remarkable objects on the road.

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Date:
1822
Physical Description:
114 p., [2] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The traveller's guide, or, A most exact description of the roads of England : being Mr. Ogilby's actual survey, and mensuration by the wheel, of the great roads from London to all the considerable cities and towns in England and Wales, together with the cross-roads from one city or eminent town to another ... : and for the better illustration thereof, are added tables ...

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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
[1712?]
Physical Description:
[8], 254 (i.e. 256) p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Observations on the western parts of England : relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : to which are added, A few remarks on the picturesque beauties of the Isle of Wight / by William Gilpin ...

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
xvi, 359, [1] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Journal of a tour to the northern parts of Great Britain ...

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Creator:
Rutland, John Henry Manners, Duke of, 1778–1857
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
[4], 300 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Confessions of an Oxonian : in three volumes : embellished with thirty-six coloured plates.

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Creator:
Moore, Thomas, 1779–1852
Date:
1826
Physical Description:
3 v. ill. ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A tour in England and Scotland in 1785 / by an English gentleman.

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Creator:
Thomson, William, 1746–1817
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
x, 367 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
viii, xxiii, [1] pages, 238 columns, [1] page, [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 18 cm (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Journal of a tour round the southern coasts of England ...

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Creator:
Rutland, John Henry Manners, Duke of, 1778–1857
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
[8], 229, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The family topographer : being a compendious account of the ancient and present state of the counties of England / by Samuel Tymms ...

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Creator:
Tymms, Samuel, 1808–1871
Date:
1832-43
Physical Description:
7 v. : maps ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improved : being an actual survey of all the direct and principal cross roads of England and Wales : shewing all the cities, towns, villages, churches, gentlemen's seats, &c. situated on, or near any of the roads ... / engraved by Emanuel Bowen ... ; to which is added an accurate historical and topographical description of all the cities, boroughs, towns corporate, and other places of note ; compiled from the best authorities, by John Owen ... ; the whole illustrated with maps of all the counties of South-Britain, and a summary description of each.

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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1764
Physical Description:
12, 273 p. : coats of arms, maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Picturesque views of the English cities / from drawings by G.F. Robson ; edited by J. Britton, F.S.A. etc. ; containing thirty-two engravings by Adlard, Barrenger, Barber, Higham, Le Keux, Jeavons, Varrall, Tombleson, Radaway, Taylor, Woolnoth, etc. ...

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Creator:
Robson, George Fennell, 1788–1833
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
[33] leaves of plates, [2] pages : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen : in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland / by J. P. Neale. 2d series....

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Creator:
Neale, John Preston, 1780–1847
Date:
1824-1829
Physical Description:
5 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. London : illustrated by twenty bird's-eye views of the principal streets : also a map showing its chief suburbs and environs : and by a street-map of central London by Herbert Fry.

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Creator:
Fry, Herbert, 1830–1885
Date:
1889
Physical Description:
xviii, 286, viii, [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. London exhibited in 1851 : elucidating its natural and physical characteristics, its antiquity and architecture : its arts, manufactures, trade, and organization : its social, literary, and scientific institutions : and its numerous galleries of fine art : with 205 illustrations, executed by Mr. Robert Branston, Mr. O. Jewitt, Mr. J.R. Jobbins, and others : including a newly-constructed map, engraved by Mr. Wilson Lowry.

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Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
910, [2] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. A tour through the whole island of Great Britain; divided into journeys. : Interspersed with useful observations; particularly calculated for the use of those who are desirous of travelling over England and Scotland. / By the Rev. C. Cruttwell, ...

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Creator:
Cruttwell, Clement, 1743–1808
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
6 v., [2] colored and folding leaves of plates : maps ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. The journey from Chester to London / by Thomas Pennant ...

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Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
[2], ii, 468, [6] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The watering places of Great Britain and fashionable directory : illustrated with views.

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Date:
1831
Physical Description:
[2], 216, 48 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great-Britain ... / by Daniel Paterson ...

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
xvi p., 702 columns, [1], 704-759, lxii p., [2] leaves of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Excursions from Bath. By the Revd. Richard Warner ...

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Creator:
Warner, Richard, 1763–1857
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
1 p. ., 346 p., 1 leaf. ill. (maps) 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Journal of a tour through north and south Wales, the Isle of Man, &c. ...

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Creator:
Rutland, John Henry Manners, Duke of, 1778–1857
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
[8], 389, [2] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Britannia depicta : a series of one hundred and thirty views of the most interesting and picturesque objects in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, & Derbyshire / engraved by John Landsheer, Wm. Byrne, S. Middiman, Geo. Cooke, John Scott, John Pye, and J. Neagle, from drawings made by J. Farington, R.A., Thos. Hearne, F.S.A., W. Turner, R.A., and others ; with brief descriptions by Samuel Lysons, F.R.S., F.S.A.

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
6 pt. in 1 v. : ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improv'd : being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's actual survey of all [the] direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales : wherein are exactly delineated & engraven, all [the] cities, towns, villages, churches, seats &c. scituate on or near the roads, with their respective distances in measured and computed miles ... / by Eman. Bowen engraver.

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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 atlas (5, [3] pages, [2], 273, [1] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, coats of arms ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. 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

46. British curiosities in art and nature : giving an account of rarities both ancient and modern, viz. monuments, monasteries, walls, Roman camps ... kings palaces, gentlemens seats ... learning and learned men, unusual customs of places, with whatever else is worthy observing, either by foreigners or our own countrymen that are inclin'd to go abroad : likewise an account of the posts, markets, & fair-towns : to which is added a very useful scheme, containing a brief account of the state of each county in England at one view, curiously engrav'd, and printed on a sheet, to fold up or put in a frame.

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Date:
1721
Physical Description:
[16], 158 [i.e. 160] p., [1] folded leaf of plates ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Three hundred and twenty picturesque views in Great Britain : land and water scenery, castles, towns, villages, seats, ruins, villas, churches, bridges, public buildings, and all objects of note and interest / the whole drawn & engraved by G.W. Bonner ; with descriptive illustrations by Charles Mackenzie.

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Creator:
Bonner, G. W. (George Wilmot), 1796–1836
Date:
[1835?]
Physical Description:
[22] p., 36 leaves of plates : ill. 23 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Observations on a tour through almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland : in a series of letters, addressed to a large number of intelligent and respectable friends / by Mr. Dibdin.

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Creator:
Dibdin, Charles, 1745–1814
Date:
[1801-1802]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales .../ by Daniel Paterson ...

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
xxxv, [1] p., 390 columns, 391-406 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. 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 ([26], 200, [4] pages, [203] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 43 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts