Lot 66 66 Cooke (George Alexander). Cooke’s Topographical Library or British Traveller’s Pocket County Directory. A Topographical and Statistical Description of [each] County, the whole Forming a Complete Itinerary, 47 parts bound in 25 vols., c.1830, forty-six handcol. folding eng. maps, various small uncol. eng. views, some spotting and occ. browning, uniform contemp. olive green morocco gilt, some a little rubbed or scuffed, 12mo
68 Darton (William & Son pub.). The Counties of England with General Maps of North and South Wales, n.d., c.1833, title page and contents page with slight staining, (water marked 1833), forty-two (complete) decorative engraved maps with original hand colouring (including three folding), some staining and off setting throughout (largely confined to first 12 maps), Worcestershire with repaired margins and small abraided holes affecting image, Yorkshire with short repaired closed tear, South Wales with repaired split along old folds, later end papers, modern half morocco gilt with marbled sidings and with a near contemp. morocco gilt label to upper board, folio
Chubb CCCV & CCCCXVII. Each part has its own title page (except Cumberland) and pagination, forming an independent and complete work. The forty-six maps are very similar in design and construction to those issued in Wallis’s New Pocket Edition of the English Counties, 1810 but on slightly larger plates. (25) £400-600
This edition is not in Chubb. The earlier circular cartouche on the maps containing the title has been erased and replaced with a new calligraphic title. The imprint on the majority of maps reads ‘London: William Darton & Son; 58 Holborn Hill’ This was the company name for a short lived period between 1835 and 1837. A complete atlas of this obscure edition must be considered scarce. (1) £1500-2000
67 Cruchley (G.F., publisher). Cruchley’s County Atlas of England & Wales shewing all the Railways & Stations with their names, also the Turnpike Roads and Principal Cross Roads to all the Cities, Market and Borough towns with the distance from Town to Town, 1875, engraved title and contents list, 47 double-page maps with the railways prominently delineated (correct as list), each with outline hand colouring, marbled endpapers, orig. red roan backed cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover, rubbed and marked, 8vo (1)
£200-300
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