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JOHN ELLIS
English Atlas: or, A Compleat Chorography of England and Wales, in fifty-four maps. London: Robert Sayer and Carington Bowles, 1766. Oblong 4° (221 x 280mm). Letterpress title with list of maps on verso. 54 engraved maps hand-coloured in outline with yellow wash borders, 6 folding. (Occasional light browning or spotting, short tear along fold of map no. 4, short marginal tears to 2 folding maps, final map trimmed to outline.) Contemporary speckled calf gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (extremities lightly rubbed, upper board slightly stained, upper hinge cracked).
A re-issue of the first edition, with four additional maps of the rivers of England and Wales, the environs of London and the Channel Islands. Chubb CCXXVIIa (without variant map 1).
English Atlas: or, A Compleat Chorography of England and Wales, in fifty-four maps. London: Robert Sayer and Carington Bowles, 1766. Oblong 4° (221 x 280mm). Letterpress title with list of maps on verso. 54 engraved maps hand-coloured in outline with yellow wash borders, 6 folding. (Occasional light browning or spotting, short tear along fold of map no. 4, short marginal tears to 2 folding maps, final map trimmed to outline.) Contemporary speckled calf gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (extremities lightly rubbed, upper board slightly stained, upper hinge cracked).
A re-issue of the first edition, with four additional maps of the rivers of England and Wales, the environs of London and the Channel Islands. Chubb CCXXVIIa (without variant map 1).
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Bubb Kuyper, Harlem, 21-22 November 1990, lot 1857.
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. Y-70).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. Y-70).
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