Manuscript Atlas
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Holt, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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n.d. n.p. n.d [mid-late 18th century], 1780. An album of hand-drawn maps with handwritten notes in an attractive italic. 230x180mm. Unpaginated, 137 pages of maps (84 maps) and text: pp. 89, 24bl, 48 (including 4 blank pages), 14bl. The maps are beautifully drawn in pen and ink with borders in coloured ink and watercolour. Tan half calf, rebacked and corners repaired, eighteenth-century marbled paper covered boards. Raised bands, burgundy morocco label lettered in gilt "Maps J:R". Some scuffing and staining to the boards. A repaired tear to the first page of text but otherwise in very good condition throughout. The author is unidentified and, possibly, unidentifiable but the main section on England is based on Thomas Badeslade's Chorographia Britannia of 1741 originally intended as a pocket atlas for George I. The maps are: forty county maps of England, one map of England showing all the counties and one showing the main coastal areas, two maps showing North and South Wales, seventeen European maps (in which Scotland, interestingly, is included) and three maps of places in Asia. The first eighty-nine pages are devoted to England. There is a map of each county and, on the facing page, information about the county in varying degrees of detail. In almost all cases the major towns and cities and the number of MPs sent to Parliament are listed but for some counties geographic, architectural and historic features are included. Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire have a list of the University colleges and their date of foundation. The section on Europe shows the regions of the major nations and lists the major rivers, mountains and volcanoes. There is a map showing the whole of Asia much of which is described as Tartary while Asiatic Turkey and Indostan are given separate, more detailed maps. This is a highly attractive book, lovingly created.
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- Voewood Rare Books (GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 3719
- Título
- Manuscript Atlas
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- ANONYMOUS
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- n.d. n.p. n.d [mid-late 18th century]
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- 1780
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Holt, Norfolk
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Simon Finch has been a Rare Book Dealer since 1980. He has had shops in Notting Hill Gate, Mayfair and Holt, Norfolk. His firm has handled a wide variety of material from the First Folio of Shakespeare to the wilder shores of the counterculture and everything in between. In 1998, Simon bought Voewood, one of the finest Arts and Crafts and houses and brought it back to life with an eight-year programme of renovation and restoration. Voewood Rare Books, which operates from Voewood, is the continuation for Simon of a long career in the book trade. It also represents an important link with the House. Voewood is always beautiful, surprising, mysterious and perhaps a little disorientating and we aim to bring something of this spirit to the bookshop. Whilst our focus in on the visual arts, literature and the counter-culture, we deal also in a broad range of antiquarian and modern rare books across all subject areas. Our collection can be found here at Biblio and on our website. We are open by appointment and can always be contacted by email.
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- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...