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TOMS, W H - CHOROGRAPHIA BRITANNIAE:...

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TOMS, W H - CHOROGRAPHIA BRITANNIAE:...
TOMS, W H - CHOROGRAPHIA BRITANNIAE:
TOMS, W H - CHOROGRAPHIA BRITANNIAE: London, 1741, full cf, 1st Edn, crown 8vo, title continues: 'to which are prefix'd the following general maps, viz I; An Accurate Chart of the Sea Coast, exhibiting all the Royal Docks, Fortifications, Harbours, Sands &c, II; A Map of England and Wales, as divided into Counties, with the Names of the Cities and County Towns, III; A Map of the great Roads from London, IV; A Map of the Cross Roads, with the distances from Town to Town, both by Computation and Measure, 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, double-page title; double-page dedication to Frederick, Prince of Wales, with coloured arms; 46 double-page maps, hand-coloured, this Collection [conveying a more comprehensive Idea of South Britain than anything hitherto publish'd] 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 engrd by Will. Henry Toms, particularly fine copy of a very scarce set of maps, all pp are clean and bright, with a mod expert binding
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