Author: John Aikin
Title: England Described: Being a Concise Delineation of Every County in England and Wales; with an Account of Its Most Important Products; Notices of the Principal Seats; and a View of Transactions CIVIL and Military &C.
Description: London, Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818. Leather. A concise account of England and Wales by John Aikin illustrated with a large folding map in colour. Originally published as 'England Delineated' in 1788; this edition first thus under new title. Containing concise accounts of each county in England and Wales from Bedfordshire to Radnorshire with notes of their products, principal seats, civil and military transactions, and more. Written by John Aikin, English medical doctor and surgeon who later devoted himself to biography and periodicals. Rebound in half morocco, bound without half title and advertisements. Index to rear. Folding map in colour to frontispiece with no marginal tears. Rebound in half straight up grain morocco binding over patterned boards, renewed endpapers. Externally smart with minor shelf wear, back strip lightly rubbed. Francis Hubert Barclay's bookplate to front pastedown, Christopher T. Perowne ex libris bookplate to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Odd light spotting scattered to odd leaf, particularly to frontispiece and first and last few. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
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Title: England Described: Being a Concise Delineation of Every County in England and Wales; with an Account of Its Most Important Products; Notices of the Principal Seats; and a View of Transactions CIVIL and Military &C.
Description: London, Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818. Leather. A concise account of England and Wales by John Aikin illustrated with a large folding map in colour. Originally published as 'England Delineated' in 1788; this edition first thus under new title. Containing concise accounts of each county in England and Wales from Bedfordshire to Radnorshire with notes of their products, principal seats, civil and military transactions, and more. Written by John Aikin, English medical doctor and surgeon who later devoted himself to biography and periodicals. Rebound in half morocco, bound without half title and advertisements. Index to rear. Folding map in colour to frontispiece with no marginal tears. Rebound in half straight up grain morocco binding over patterned boards, renewed endpapers. Externally smart with minor shelf wear, back strip lightly rubbed. Francis Hubert Barclay's bookplate to front pastedown, Christopher T. Perowne ex libris bookplate to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Odd light spotting scattered to odd leaf, particularly to frontispiece and first and last few. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: england travel guide folding maps travel None
Price: GBP 125.00 = appr. US$ 178.50 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 840A90
- Book number: 840A90
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