TOPOGRAPHY
AIKIN, John. A Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles round Manchester, London: for John Stockdale, 1795, 4°, engraved frontispiece, title and 71 maps and plates, including 2 large folding maps, one outlined in colour (occasional spotting to plates, mainly marginal), contemporary tree calf (worn) [Upcott p.462] -- J.H. HANSHALL. The History of the County Palatine of Chester, Chester: John Fletcher, 1817, 4°, engraved title (spotted), portrait, 2 maps, one folding and hand-coloured, 25 plates (one plate supplied in facsimile, some heavily spotted), later 19th-century half calf (spine very faded, rubbed); and 8 other topographical volumes, including Baine's The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster (1888-93, 5 volumes). (10)
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AIKIN, John. A Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles round Manchester, London: for John Stockdale, 1795, 4°, engraved frontispiece, title and 71 maps and plates, including 2 large folding maps, one outlined in colour (occasional spotting to plates, mainly marginal), contemporary tree calf (worn) [Upcott p.462] -- J.H. HANSHALL. The History of the County Palatine of Chester, Chester: John Fletcher, 1817, 4°, engraved title (spotted), portrait, 2 maps, one folding and hand-coloured, 25 plates (one plate supplied in facsimile, some heavily spotted), later 19th-century half calf (spine very faded, rubbed); and 8 other topographical volumes, including Baine's The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster (1888-93, 5 volumes). (10)