Bowles (Carington). Bowles's Pocket Atlas, 1785
Bowles (Carington). Bowles's Pocket Atlas of the Counties of South Britain or England and Wales Drawn to one Scale....., London: circa 1785, double-page oval calligraphic title, double-page index, fifty-seven uncoloured engraved maps on forty-eight sheets (complete as list), including fifteen folding, near-contemporary manuscript numbers and titles to the verso of each map, slight staining and offsetting, a few of the folding maps with short closed tears where old folds cross, map of Westmorland toned, near-contemporary ownership signature to the third blank, later endpapers, bookplate of Roger Quirk to front pastedown, modern gilt quarter calf over marbled boards with vellum tipped corners, 8vo (Quantity: 1) Chubb CCLVI. Scarce.
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Bowles (Carington). Bowles's Pocket Atlas of the Counties of South Britain or England and Wales Drawn to one Scale....., London: circa 1785, double-page oval calligraphic title, double-page index, fifty-seven uncoloured engraved maps on forty-eight sheets (complete as list), including fifteen folding, near-contemporary manuscript numbers and titles to the verso of each map, slight staining and offsetting, a few of the folding maps with short closed tears where old folds cross, map of Westmorland toned, near-contemporary ownership signature to the third blank, later endpapers, bookplate of Roger Quirk to front pastedown, modern gilt quarter calf over marbled boards with vellum tipped corners, 8vo (Quantity: 1) Chubb CCLVI. Scarce.
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