A New & Correct PLAN, of London, including all ye New Buildings &c, a rare printed telescopic map fan, the leaf engraved by R. Bennett, the reserves with Hackney Coach prices, the plain reverse stamped Clarke & Co. No.26, Strand; invent., the sticks ivory with over guard sticks of carved and pierced bone - 10.5in. extended, 8in., closed - English, circa 1760 (hairline crack in one guardstick)

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A New & Correct PLAN, of London, including all ye New Buildings &c, a rare printed telescopic map fan, the leaf engraved by R. Bennett, the reserves with Hackney Coach prices, the plain reverse stamped Clarke & Co. No.26, Strand; invent., the sticks ivory with over guard sticks of carved and pierced bone - 10.5in. extended, 8in., closed - English, circa 1760 (hairline crack in one guardstick)

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Not in the Schreiber Collection. Clark prided himself as the inventor of the New Patent Sliding Fans.
Not in Darlington and Howgeo : New & Printed Maps of London 1978.
Richard Bennett engraved a new and Accurate Suravey of the Country about...London ..in 1758 for H. Parker and E. Bakewell [D.&H.111]

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