12th Sep, 2018 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
  Lot 104
 

104

Paterson, Captn. Daniel British Itinerary, Being A new and accurate Delineation and Description...

Paterson, Captn. Daniel British Itinerary, Being A new and accurate Delineation and Description of the Direct and Principal Cross Roads of Great Britain. 2 vols; 8vo, full tree calf; hand coloured engraved frontis, engraved titles to both, engraved dedication in I, 358 strip maps across both vols; provenance: James Milnes[-Gaskell] (his owner's bookplate to upper pastedown of I) -- Charles Milnes-Gaskell (his armorial bookplate to upper pastedown of II). Cary, John Traveller's Companion, or a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales. 8vo, sometime bound in red leather with folding flap on upper board, gilt ruled border to boards, gilt roll-tooled edges and turn-ins, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; engraved map frontis. hand coloured in outline, engraved title, 41 maps hand coloured in outline (missing Yorkshire); provenance: M. Clayton 1792 (his owner's inscription to front free endpaper with handwritten list of dates and routes travelled on initial blanks).

Sold for £250
Estimated at £100 - £200


 

Paterson with some signs of use, generally clean internally, vol. II upper board detached. Cary likewise showing signs of use, flap joint cracking at foot, with some offsetting from and to maps, small tear at head of Berkshire just touching edge of map, small marginal tear head of Herefordshire, small marginal crease foot of Wiltshire, otherwise very good.

 


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